The GPU issue is a good one. Every desktop system my friends have has two GPUs in it: one built into the processor that no one ever uses, and one they add separ

The GPU issue is a good one. Every desktop system my friends have has two GPUs in it: one built into the processor that no one ever uses, and one they add separately so that they can play any games. AMD at least has half-decent GPUs built into their CPUs, but their CPUs are only half-decent anyway. Meanwhile, Intel refuses to license any Thunderbolt external GPU docks or anything of the sort, despite how popular they would be with laptop-toting would-be gamers, because they want to promote their own, awful GPUs instead. Likewise the core count issue. Jeff Atwood's recent blog post[1] about how Android JS performance has stagnated because Android SoC single-core performance hasn't improved in years blew me away, but in retrospect it makes sense; it's presumably more engineering work to design a faster CPU core than it is to just put more of the onto a die and call it a day. [1] https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor/33889 https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-andr...