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No point adopting this, when we know (RISC-V org CTO talks in December's summit) that Microsoft is working on Windows RISC-V support. I see no future for ARM p
by snvzz 4y ago
No point adopting this, when we know (RISC-V org CTO talks in December's summit) that Microsoft is working on Windows RISC-V support.
I see no future for ARM powered laptops. They'll disappear before they reach any significant adoption.
- lockhouse 4y agoMaybe for Windows and Linux. Apple’s bet it’s future on ARM.
- hdjrjrjdjdhrh 4y agohas it? Apple has used many different architectures over the lifetime of the company. in the last 20 years it has transitioned from powepc to x86 to ARM.... I do think it could change again if neccessary.... Edit:spelling and logical consistency
- lproven 4y agoThis thing is a fast little computer. No it's not Apple M1 quick but it's only about 20% slower and you can't run Windows natively on an M1. (And it has a nicer pair of pointing devices than any Apple laptop.) RISC-V is dog slow. The absolutely top-end RISC-V kit is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 was a decade ago, and the Pi3 was £25 and it had 4 cores, and it can run about 6-7 OSes natively. Not Linux distros, different OSes: Linux, all the BSDs, Plan 9, Inferno, RISC OS. If you were to buy one of these things -- and I wrote the review and I am not recommending it, not at this price -- you would probably wear it out and resell it off and buy the next gen device, and wear that one out in turn -- before any RISC-V laptop with this kind of performance comes on the market at any price. Don't kid yourself.