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With more and more big players starting production of customized private proprietary hardware compatibility becomes increasingly difficult. Which works out well
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
With more and more big players starting production of customized private proprietary hardware compatibility becomes increasingly difficult.
Which works out well for the big players who can leverage it as lock ins.
Regular people wont be able to buy the chips from Microsoft, Google,
and you only get M* chips if you buy Apple hardware.
Good luck with the frankenMacs now.
At the same time devices that you buy get locked into company as well,
and if that company goes out of business you are screwed.
Like I was when Ambi Climate closed up shop and left with e-waste.
All the hardware I need is in there but I can do anything with it.
Or when Google decided to close down access for Lenovo Displays, because
they didnt want to support 3rd party Displays anymore.
Two more e-waste devices for me.
(There might be a way to save the Displays I just haven't got in working yet)
Open, compatible, standardized omni purpose hardware seems to be dying.
Much more profit in lock ins
- oldpersonintx 3y ago[dead]
- soulbadguy 3y agoPC hardware (and hardware in general) has never been particularly open. We simply seem to move from one dominant player to the next. I don't think AWS/GCP using custom chip for their cloud offering changes much of the situation (well at least before they start having weird custom instructions).
- walterbell 3y ago> you only get M* chips if you buy Apple hardware. Former M* team members are now at Qualcomm and HP/Dell/Lenovo will ship their Arm laptops later this year, including Windows 11 and upstream Linux support.
- a_wild_dandan 3y agoIf they can match the battery life, then I might switch back to a Linux laptop. I’m so sick of Apple’s anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices.
- meowkit 3y agoI’m a windows dev and dogfooding the latest OS/hardware. The upcoming ARM devices + OS standby changes massively improve battery life. I also own an M1 and have been passively comparing, much closer now.
- ThinkBeat 3y agoDell and Microsoft has been shipping ARM laptops for years. Creating an ARM cpu is ok but will they copy the entire M* architecture?
- walterbell 3y agoWe'll find out after the MS Surface + Qualcomm (ex-Nuvia) launch in late May.
- LettuceSand12 3y agoAren’t all of these ARM chips? Why is compatibility such a big issue?
- astrange 3y agoIt isn't a big issue. But ARM doesn't have a universal boot loader/device discovery/etc standard like EFI/ACPI, so there is some more work to support them.
- jonmasters 3y agoArm servers do precisely have exactly that set of standards ((U)EFI/ACPI). See Arm SystemReady. You'll notice in the blog linked above that it mentions Arm SystemReady-VE, which uses those standards.
- Aurornis 3y agoThese are ARM processors using standard ARM instruction sets. I don’t see any lock in here.