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One additional reason it still makes sense as a product: last 3-4 years have been... Quite underwhelming, from a CPU power perspective. A little bit of power ef
by gruturo 11y ago
One additional reason it still makes sense as a product: last 3-4 years have been... Quite underwhelming, from a CPU power perspective. A little bit of power efficiency, which does have its place on a laptop, but other than that, hardly anything noticeable in day to day use.
Intel is clearly not feeling the heat from competition and their pricing, minimal improvement and feature fragmentation clearly show it.
Giving up on AMD ever going back to making them feel a bit of heat again.
So wishing for Apple to release an ARM MacBook, just to put some fear into Intel, and return some health to the market.
- bluedino 11y agoPlus, when they were new, the 13" MBP (at least from 2010+) had 10 hours of battery life. Pretty good, even by today's standards.
- forrestthewoods 11y agoI want an ARM MacBook as that implies OS X on ARM which means an iPad Pro should be able to dual boot
- rbanffy 11y agoARM is not magic. I bet that as soon as it performs in the same range as an x86 under OSX, power consumption will be similar. You may feel better the ISA is neater, and that it may be Windows-proof, but that's about all you'll have.
- jodrellblank 11y agoit may be Windows-proof Fear not, Windows runs on ARM and has done for several years. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/02/09/building-wind...
- rbanffy 11y agoYes, but they'd still need to port some bits and pieces. I don't see Microsoft doing that.
- jodrellblank 11y agoYou think they would't port Windows to run on an ARM MacBook? Do you know they made Windows to run on the Raspberry Pi ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/windows-10-for-iot/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/windows-10-for-iot/ )? Because I think a MacBook version would have even more backing than that.
- happycube 11y agoYup... so we get things like dual-core lie7's even in platforms that look big enough to fit a quad-core, Celeron lines downgraded from mainline chips to Atom's, etc. sigh