There’s nothing wrong with ARM. Qualcomm, on the other hand . . .
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Who the heck designs a laptop with an ARM core? Nothing against ARM, they are my bread and butter on the job. But whatever you do, choose the right tools for the right job.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not an Apple fanboy, but arm based processors seem to be working out fairly well for them.
I own an Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, which was one of the OG snapdragon x laptops released a (two?) and a half ago. It took a while for folks to get Linux to run on them and there’s enough of a barrier to entry that it’s still not very common. Most of the initial hurdles were due to Qualcomm bootloader shenanigans.
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
People stopped needing more processing power in their laptops years ago. For the majority of users a computer has long been a thin client for Chrome.
Since a lot of arm design has been around efficiency and performance per watt they would be a natural choice for laptops.