14 DAY TRIAL // Apple launched the M1 chip earlier this month, and the first devices that are powered by Apple Silicon went on sale only a few days ago.
And naturally, developers out there are working 24/7 to bring their apps to these new devices, thus making sure everything is working natively.
The developing team working on CrossOver, the truly advanced solution that brings Windows software to Mac computers, has recently announced their software is also compatible with Apple Silicon, though some improvements are still required.
Apple Silicon already available for purchase
But many apps are already working on devices powered by the M1 chip, but other than, CrossOver 20 should be able to run most apps on Apple Silicon just fine.
“We got impatient and discovered that our local Best Buy had the cheapest Macbook Air in stock, so we bought it and loaded CrossOver 20.0.2 onto it. We also installed the beta version of Big Sur 11.1, because we know it has some critical fixes to Rosetta. After we did that, we were able to fire up CrossOver and install and run a wide range of Windows applications,” Jeremy White of the CrossOver team revealed today.
“I can't tell you how cool that is; there is so much emulation going on under the covers. Imagine - a 32-bit Windows Intel binary, running in a 32-to-64 bridge in Wine / CrossOver on top of macOS, on an ARM CPU that is emulating x86 - and it works! This is just so cool.”
The new M1 chip is currently available on the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini models that are already on sale, and Apple promises substantial speed improvements on all of them, also thanks to optimizations that have been bundled with the newly-released macOS Big Sur.
