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Only if both Google and Microsoft focus on making that happen. Microsoft seems to have given up on it, so now we're only left with the new Play Store-enabled Ch
by mtgx 10y ago
Only if both Google and Microsoft focus on making that happen. Microsoft seems to have given up on it, so now we're only left with the new Play Store-enabled Chromebooks, that should actually give a slight advantage to ARM chips in terms of efficiency of running those apps. But so far Google hasn't been too enthusiastic about promoting ARM-based Chromebooks either, and has preferred to bring over Intel's monopoly to Chromebooks as well. But we'll see. At the very least we should be seeing some AMD Zen APUs in Chromebooks next year.
Apple could help a great deal here, too, if it decides to turn the iPad Pro, into something more like an iOS-based Remix OS-like notebook. In other words, make the iPad Pro more useful by giving it an actual notebook keyboard, and redesign the OS interface a little more to accommodate a desktop environment. Keep the price at least $300 less than a Macbook Air.
- petra 10y ago>> so far Google hasn't been too enthusiastic about promoting ARM-based Chromebooks either, and has preferred to bring over Intel's monopoly to Chromebooks as well. Is it Google's doing ? or just Intel competing to the max, and desperately ?