Observed arrival · 2026-10-09
Algovista: Windows 7’s Aero glass on Apple Silicon
Algovista is building GPU-accelerated virtualization tooling to run Windows 7 and Vista, including Aero glass, on Apple Silicon Macs.
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- Mac users exploring legacy Windows software or preservation
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- The page reports Windows Experience Index scores of 5.9–6.0, while warning that CPU-heavy work remains slow.
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The site describes a patched QEMU setup that presents a VMware SVGA3D device to the Windows guest, then translates Direct3D calls for the Mac GPU. It reports Windows Experience Index scores between 5.9 and 6.0, but says CPU-heavy work remains slow and 3DMark06 runs around 9–27 fps. A separate, explicitly experimental effort applies the graphics approach to OS X Mavericks.
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