• megopie@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yah, I’m really not enthused with the idea of having to pay monthly rent for my computers ability to function.

    I wonder if intel just values their existing experience with 86 more than any potential efficiency gains since the efficiency matters a lot less when the whole system is just a glorified screen and antenna.

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      1 year ago

      I’d say their recent trend towards packing in E(fficiency)-cores along with their previously standard P(erformance)-core design shows that they’re sensitive to and reacting to both the higher core counts of AMD and the greater efficiency of ARM

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      1 year ago

      I’m really not sure even Microsoft could get away with that

      The moment a subscription service comes into play for something they take for granted as free people will start looking at alternatives. Chromebooks and macbooks exist and from what I hear Chromebooks are starting to become serious competition for Windows

      Plus Linux desktop obviously getting more user friendly and preinstalled on laptops