Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end...
by read_if_gay_ on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:23AM
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> I do hope for both of our sakes that most people are not so fickle to abandon it at first opportunity just because it is not an immediate cost.
Generally, people are absolutely terrible at taking long term effects into account. I don't think many people are going to think twice about giving up their computing freedom.
But I think Apple's positioning as premium brand is going to ensure that open hardware keeps existing. And maybe we can even look forward to RISC-V to shake the CPU market up again.
Generally, people are absolutely terrible at taking long term effects into account. I don't think many people are going to think twice about giving up their computing freedom.
But I think Apple's positioning as premium brand is going to ensure that open hardware keeps existing. And maybe we can even look forward to RISC-V to shake the CPU market up again.