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Likewise, history will tell you we'll periodically see obnoxious hacker news comments claiming the M-series can’t possibly be better than what the x86 world has
by tambourine_man 4y ago
Likewise, history will tell you we'll periodically see obnoxious hacker news comments claiming the M-series can’t possibly be better than what the x86 world has to offer.
We’ve been reading for decades that ISAs don’t matter that much anymore, and yet everything that needs good battery life is ARM. Intel was the undisputed manufacturing kind for 40 years or so. Things change.
- CoolGuySteve 4y agoI don't know, why did x86 beat PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC, and whatever else in the desktop and server space? Seems like node size for the price beats everything else which is what we're talking about here. Apple's anticompetitive practices are not particularly compelling evidence of some inherent architectural superiority.