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two ifs for me If they pass on the savings to consumers, looking at the price escalation with iPads I don't see why we should expect it to happen. if they don
by Shivetya 6y ago
two ifs for me
If they pass on the savings to consumers, looking at the price escalation with iPads I don't see why we should expect it to happen.
if they don't build that garden wall higher which can include no bootcamp support
while TSMC is doing great they are sill in Taiwan, a country which China has been making a lot of dangerous noise about and considering what is happening in Hong Kong how long before Taiwan suffers a similar or worse fate. That is a lot of manufacturing tied up in one area
- akmarinov 6y agoIt's very unlikely that they pass on savings to people by coming up with a cheap ARM laptop, after all their whole thing is gouging people with unrealistic prices for the hardware and huge margins on everything. That said, if a laptop rolls around that doubles the 10 hour battery life on existing configurations - they'll scoop up a ton of users regardless whether it can run Windows or not. I don't know how doable that would be, but the iPad Pro has a 28 watt hour battery, the MBP 13 has a 59 watt hour battery, a theoretical Macbook without a discrete GPU and a smaller motherboard footprint of an A13 chip, leaving space for a bigger battery and providing about the same performance could possibly hit 20 hours of battery in about the same space.