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Exam proctoring Software Examplify incompatible with ARM

This would be kind of a bummer for a student who got their new Surface for school work. The company explicitly states “CPU Processor: Non-ARM-based processor supported by your operating system” as a requirement for Windows. On MacOS it’s fine though. This is the kind of incompatibility that I thought was mostly fixed, with remaining issues being legacy drivers for that old scanner. Apparently not!

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Eltos

That's crazy!

JoeS

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Right? I'm not sure how big this Examplify product is, but it's amazing that a mainstream product doesn't work with what is rapidly becoming a mainstream OS. I wonder if there's custom drivers to limit what students can do during an exam that make this hard to compile for ARM.

Dellaster

Mar 01

That’s a pretty big gotcha for those who buy a Surface Laptop Snapdragon for a college kid thinking it’s a smart choice. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Sometimes my sister asks about such things for her grandchildren and now I know to not recommend anything with ARM that’s not a Mac.