>> On one hand I'm not convinced that ARM chips outperform Intel. What does "Intel" even mean? Intel offers such a wide array of chips, from bad to great. If

>> On one hand I'm not convinced that ARM chips outperform Intel. What does "Intel" even mean? Intel offers such a wide array of chips, from bad to great. If we're talking about the low end of laptops on sale today, then we're probably talking about the Atom Z, Celeron/Pentium N, and maybe CoreM. And those chips are "meh" at best, and are a pretty low performance bar to meet. >> At the end of the day you get a performance hit, without a reason that can easily be explained to a user. Why does it need to be explained to a user? Is the average user even going to understand or care that there's a performance hit? They're just going to know that their computer is slow or fast. And that performance expectation is usually mapped to the price of the machine they bought.