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You can, but with emulationb for anything needing x86 (like Windows). Which means it's slow and unusable
Nope, they use Windows for ARM
Right which still isn't the x86 version of windows that basically every vendor I've come across requires for tooling software and machine programming. It's okay to be wrong fan boy.
My god you're calling me a fanboy long after I sold the only Apple device I owned. Like it's actually hilarious in how off the mark you are. It wasn't long ago I was getting downvoted on Reddit for suggesting someone not buy their girlfriend a macbook.
I am well aware of the compatibility issues, it's why I sold my M1 machine. The thing is you were specifically talking about Windows as an example of something that needs emulation, which it doesn't. It's specific applications that need "emulation", which isn't even a normal emulator. For macOS applications they mainly use static recompilation, and for Windows apps dynamic recompilation (dynarec) is used. Windows for ARM translation layer basically acts like a JIT compiler.
Apple's implementation is actually shockingly good because they built an x86 like memory coherency mode into the M family SoCs (specifically in the performance cores) and because they are using the static recompilation that I mentioned. Apps running in a Windows for ARM VM couldn't use that last time I owned a MacBook.