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> it isn't a selling point to my mom or her friends Really? That's surprising to me. I'd imagine that for the demographic of her and her friends, quality of li
by yowlingcat 6y ago
> it isn't a selling point to my mom or her friends
Really? That's surprising to me. I'd imagine that for the demographic of her and her friends, quality of life increases for their phones are far more material than for their computers.
- neogodless 6y agoIt sounds like you're agreeing with your parent comment. > phones are far more material Thus they don't really care about laptop battery life.
- yowlingcat 6y agoThat's not what I'm getting at. What I'm getting at is that to say that "even if Apple goes 100% M1, there's the other 85% of the market that Intel is likely far more concerned about." is somewhat far-fetched. Apple can make their own desktop chips because it's an easier problem than making a phone chip (performance/thermal efficiency), but Intel can't make because they've sacrificed thermal efficiency time and time again -- not just this time but a decade ago. Remember Prescott? I think that is why Intel should be (and probably is) worried about Apple. They will make Intel redundant by having solved a harder problem which their own problem becomes a subset of.