They look good — but not necessarily “playable” yet?
  • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    539·
    6 months ago

    No one was interested in an ARM laptop until Apple launched M1.

    Edit: downvotes don’t make you right.

    • Dark Arc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      6 months ago

      I had a buddy who was a Linux ARM laptop fanatic back in like 2014. Microsoft had been trying to make Windows on ARM a thing for years before that.

      Apple was the first to popularize it but it’s been a work in progress if you’ve been paying attention for a LOT longer. What helped Apple is all the work they did on their own ARM chips for iOS. They managed to get pretty close to x86 performance in an ARM chip. They also had an app store of apps that could run on them and an emulator for things that wouldn’t.

      Every time Microsoft tried nobody would release ARM builds… People just bought the x86 laptops. It’s the same chicken and egg problem desktop Linux has had for years.

      • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        317·
        6 months ago

        …so, you admit it then. I don’t see where we disagree.

        What helped Apple is all the work they did on their own ARM chips for iOS. They managed to get pretty close to x86 performance in an ARM chip.

        Apple was the first to popularize it…

        Now that Apple has done it, the PC world wants to do it for real this time.