Microsoft has already released Windows-on-ARM and there are several vendors making ARM laptops. So far adoption seems slow. I think the initial ball drop was

Microsoft has already released Windows-on-ARM and there are several vendors making ARM laptops. So far adoption seems slow. I think the initial ball drop was running an emulated x86 Chrome binary. I know time to market is important but porting Edge and not porting Chrome was a big mistake. Now that Windows Chrome (and firefox) is built native, I'd bet the biggest challenge is getting critical third party vendors like VPNs. Apple has fewer third party software vendors AFAIK so they would probably be able to move to ARM with fewer challenges. That said, they have traditionally had a lot of customers in creative industries with specialized software from Adobe. Getting the vendors to port, moving quickly, and trying to keep business plans secret will be tricky. I have an i5 thinkpad for work that gets atrocious battery life. At home, I have an XPS13 (also i5-based) that gets ~6+ hours which is good. I should be able to go the entire work day on a single charge. All of my build/compile/test work is done remotely on desktops and servers, so my laptop has relatively light duty.