ARM chips don't have good performance compared to x86 chips. Most people would be unwilling to accept a performance downgrade I'm not so sure about that. Excl

ARM chips don't have good performance compared to x86 chips. Most people would be unwilling to accept a performance downgrade I'm not so sure about that. Excluding gamers and power users, I'd say that in the last 5-10 years, most people haven't even had a clue about how the performance of their personal computer will compare. Everything's just "fast enough" for most people. Performance increases, if any, are more likely to be attributed to Windows reinstallations or the fresh setup in a new computer rather than the CPU power. Installing more memory and better hard drives have more to do with the snappiness of a personal computer than the CPU. In fact, heck, I'm a programmer and the last time I think I cared about the processor speed was in the turn of the 2000's. I do notice CPU performance when compiling big codebases but compared to hours of turnaround time in the 90's any messages from the compilation units have generally just been swooshing by at an unprecedented pace during the last decade. I would notice an ARM CPU on my main development laptop but I could probably live with that easily, especially given the better battery life and decreased heat production of an ARM chip. Anyone else from office workers to my parents probably would never guess if it's ARM or x86, even if the former was 1GHz and the latter was 3GHz.