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>Why do they still bother installing Intel? Because despite getting clobbered on desktop, Intel is still competitive in laptops and produces more than AMD can.
by Wohlf 6y ago
>Why do they still bother installing Intel?
Because despite getting clobbered on desktop, Intel is still competitive in laptops and produces more than AMD can.
>Then the Ryzen one is old as well. Why not a new gen?
Because there's not enough supply.
>Why not trying ARM like Apple did?
Because people use Microsoft for backwards compatibility. They tried it before with Windows RT, and it was a flop.
- varispeed 6y agoThese are sane points. However, given the circumstances I don't understand why releasing a new product when it already feels few years old at launch. Just to keep themselves busy? Keep practicing releases? Maybe they could have channelled that energy towards beating Apple instead...
- Wohlf 6y agoThat I can't answer. My guess is it's to meet some sort of contract they have together, like Microsoft sells laptops with AMD processors and gets a better deal on Xbox components. The AMD SKUs seem to top out at 16GB of RAM and smaller SSDs, which signals to me MS doesn't expect to sell as many.