It seems the Windows Dev Kit 2023 offers a higher amount of RAM (32GB instead of 8GB) and more storage (512GB instead of 256GB). Let’s dig in and find out which device is best!Īfter reviewing the above tables of the specifications for both the Windows Dev Kit 2023 and the Apple Mac mini, then you can clearly see there are some big differences between the two devices. After all, you can run Windows on ARM in a VM on Apple’s hardware too, so Windows can technically run on both sides. Obviously, it’s Windows OS for Microsoft and macOS for Apple on the software side, but let’s see how these two ARM-based computers compare on a hardware level. So, I thought I’d do a little research and put together the following comparison between this new Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 and the Apple Mac mini. There are many others following the traditional path of looking at this new dev kit form a purely Microsoft Windows perspective. However, Microsoft isn’t building their own silicon chips like Apple, as Microsoft is using a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 compute platform in this new Windows Dev Kit. With this device, Microsoft too is pushing further towards the ARM CPU direction with their PCs similarly to what Apple has already been doing for a couple years now with the M1 and M2 chips based on ARM CPU architecture. Microsoft started shipping its Windows Dev Kit 2023 which is a new hardware device built for developers to use for developing, testing, and running Windows on ARM applications.

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