I feel like this would probably be a good thing for a lot of Apple customers. Especially is they started this with their cheaper models. Switching to arm might

I feel like this would probably be a good thing for a lot of Apple customers. Especially is they started this with their cheaper models. Switching to arm might improve power efficiency (though surely most power goes to the screen?) but it could have a bigger impact on cpu temperature and reducing thermal throttling. Bloomberg suggests that other laptop makers might also switch to arm. I think this is a place where apple could have a key advantage because their arm chips seem to always be significantly better than the competition (at least for mobile). Most people will do computing consisting of: - browsing the web/using complicated web apps - watching video - word processors or similar programs I think these days we should be less concerned about some traditionally compute-heavy tasks because they have been being encouraged to switch to gpu compute for performance gains for a while now. Most things that care about performance will have been ported to gpu already if possible. I feel like programs like word processors are probably more memory than cpu constrained and a small potential drop in cpu performance would not matter so much to programs that were designed to run on much slower hardware. Web browsers (well chrome and safari) have already been seriously optimised for running on atm chips.