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People won’t believe it’s not Apple its magic sauce and ARM is really just that good until ARM processors start being a mainstream thing in Windows laptops. ARM
by jorvi 6y ago
People won’t believe it’s not Apple its magic sauce and ARM is really just that good until ARM processors start being a mainstream thing in Windows laptops. ARM its ARM-X already looks pretty juicy and the follow-ups are sure to get better and better.
- saagarjha 6y agoIt’s Apple, not ARM.
- simonh 6y agoIf Apple is free riding on how great ARM is, how come everybody else’s mobile ARM chips are such pants in comparison?
- jorvi 6y agoYou (and apparently most of HN) is misunderstanding me: I’m not saying Apple isn’t doing great stuff or that they’re just coasting on ARMs tech, but it is the ARM ISA that enables them to make the M1 so ridiculously good. But people won’t believe that and will attribute it to Apple’s vertical integration until they are holding a Windows laptop with an ARM CPU and crazy battery life, thermals etc. And again: ARM already has the X in the pipeline which is going to close part of the ARM-Apple A-series gap.
- saagarjha 6y agoNo, we understand fine; we disagree with the claim that M1 is good because of the ARM ISA. Had Apple picked something else a decade ago we’d probably see them pulling ahead with that, too.
- jorvi 6y agoThen you don’t really understand, because Apple couldn’t have pushed x86 this far, even if they had gotten a license. Also go pick a bone somewhere else man, how sad do you have to be to multi-downvote on HN? This isn’t Reddit.
- saagarjha 6y agoI fail to see why Apple could not have pushed x86 "this far". I'd be happy to hear why you think so, though. I don't really understand the second part of your comment, however: I have no bone to pick with you, nor do I regularly downvote people. Least of all you, since the only interaction I recall having with you is your replies to my comments, which automatically disables downvoting.