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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by izacus on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:56AM (#25186250)
> The reaction to this in tech circles has been surprisingly muted IMO.

It's still a proprietary chip, available in a single type of device built for certain type of people with no ability so source those chips for other use-cases.

Apple users will browse faster on the go. And they're ecstatic. For most non-Apple users this won't be a life-changing event. Most people currently have COVID and other things on their mind vs. faster browser benchmarks.

Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by foldr on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:07AM (#25186346)
>For most non-Apple users this won't be a life-changing event.

Neither are occasional reliability issues with butterfly keyboards, but people seem to get more excited about that issue here than they do about the M1. As a tech nerd that doesn't make sense to me. But of course people are free to get excited or not about whatever they like.