Quick… now that intel is busy setting fire to their reputation and customer trust.
Problem being, this puts more eggs in the TSMC basket. Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, AMD etc all go through TSMC.
As much as I hate the fact that Intel has been dragging their feet for years, they are one of the biggest competing foundries.
The pandemic showed us what happens with these single points of chip manufacturing failure.
Oh yes, absolutely. But the timing, with Intel chips failing and their official position Beiing “caveat emptor” there is no better moment to enter the market with this hardware.
And I don’t think the Taiwanese mind the worlds’ ability to get chips gets a bit more dependant on Taiwan’s independence from China.
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If only there was a fully-featured alternative OS we could use on ARM!
lol at “but don’t worry, we’ll cut down everything but the AI shit”.
I certainly won’t complain about cheaper, but I’m pretty happy with my Lenovo 7x Slim. It has a 14.5" 3k OLED display, so it’s not the battery life champ, but it’s built well and priced pretty well at $1,200 MSRP. You can upgrade the ram to 32 GB and the SSD to 1 TB for $110 combined. Typical Lenovo experience for shipping a custom build, but the laptop itself is great. Uninstall McAfee and away you go. I’ve only heard the fan kick on once, it doesn’t heat up in any meaningful way, the screen and keyboard are great, windows hello is surprisingly nice with facial recognition, etc etc. No comparability issues so far, but I also didn’t buy it to game on.
Growing the ARM share of the market will only make the experience better for everyone - for both windows and hopefully also for Linux.
Arm-powered? How am I supposed to use one when my other arm is being occupied?
Future-proof your arms capacity for a few years with a coat of arms. No more worring about not having available arms.
For real, I was excited about ARM PCs until the price tag.
Give it some time. In 2-3 years the PC market is going to be where Apple is with their ARM machines.
There will be multiple generations of chips on the shelf, and the chips from the last year or two will have great performance, but will be more affordable.
I love the direction of low-power for higher performance I see in Snapdragon X, the potential for lunar lake, and the new zen5 mobile apus. Things are going to get very interesting, especially when we see DDR6 real world potential.
A galaxy book 360 with arm processor is my dream machine. A Windows convertible with S Pen running Photoshop and all-day battery life? Yes, please!
