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So the big questions on this and Intel next-gen process releases: 1) so it is just the process that gives the Apple ARM laptops their superior battery life? 2
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
So the big questions on this and Intel next-gen process releases:
1) so it is just the process that gives the Apple ARM laptops their superior battery life?
2) if so (I doubt it will be), when will there be as good a performing laptop example in x86?
3) if not (as I suspect)... what is the actual response to the M1 gauntlet by Intel/AMD? THeir own ARM chips?
If Wintel tries to go ARM, it is the last opportunity for Linux desktop inroads, or perhaps an opportunity for Windows to go full-core Linux with windows as the UI.
At this point after 25 years of linux desktop being subpar, I welcome a major player, even goddamn Microsoft, and yes I remember every horrible thing Microsoft has done in the last 40 years of my life, to take the bull by the horns.
Microsoft is the lesser of two evils. Apple will dangerously close the freedom of the software on their machines to push everything to app stores. Microsoft, to their credit, I think the first time I have ever praised them, is more open in their platform approach historically.
But... nah, it won't happen.
- Dalewyn 4y agoMicrosoft tried everything they could imagine to try and kill off Win32 and force everything and everyone onto Microsoft Store with locked down MetroModernUIImmersiveUWP software. They all failed because the entire reason for Windows's existence is users can install and use practically anything anywhere anytime. So no, Microsoft is not open. They do not want Win32 and its open nature. Microsoft is salivating at the kind of walled garden Google and Apple managed to erect, and would try for it again the next chance they get.
- ngcc_hk 4y agoSometimes market is wondering. Imagine anyone said freedom to choose is what Microsoft is. In a sense it was (as it basically copied Apple II open hardware and against macintosh closed system). In a sense it is not (it tried closed on the software part somehow and even get anti-trust on browser). Even then the “embrace, extend and extinguish” is well known. But now. It seems it is that major game. That is crazy. Can linux …