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It's not about making sense economically it's just that there are not many ARM platforms out there, so if you want a native ARM dev box, Apple is pretty much th
by jmnicolas 5y ago
It's not about making sense economically it's just that there are not many ARM platforms out there, so if you want a native ARM dev box, Apple is pretty much the only choice.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoThat's not true at all. There's plenty of ARM platforms out there, especially in the Linux world they've been around a long time (does the Raspberry PI ring any bells? Or Nvidia Jetson? Or Freescale iMX6? Or Beaglebone Black?). Of course, they don't have M1 performance, but best in class performance was not a condition in you statement.
- jmnicolas 5y agoYou're right I should have said an arm laptop. Microsoft have (had?) one and that's pretty much it.
- commoner 5y agoThe Pinebook Pro is an ARM laptop designed for Linux: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ It doesn't have the performance of a MacBook, but it's also just $220 (when it's back in stock).
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoThere are some nice Chromebooks in that space