> It seems so amazing to me that Microsoft saw the ARM opportunity with Windows RT, released 8 years back but somehow managed to not succeed with a stellar ARM laptop story.
It's definitely not a stellar ARM laptop story, but the ARM laptops have been at market for years prior to the ARM Macbook release. Not porting Chrome for the initial release was a huge blunder IMO. No one wants to use Edge. Having a chip with performance parity targeted at Intel's i5 might have been a mistake, too.
But (while admittedly not as stellar as M1 Macbook) we have options: the Envy X2, Yoga/Flex 5G, Surface Pro X, Galaxy Book S.
The M1 validates Microsoft's strategy to embrace ARM. Hopefully the third-party software devs are able to port their software in order to make this transition easier.
Qualcomm stopped their own CPU design a while back and if they'd have kept that going then perhaps there would be a better competitor to the M1. Or maybe they just need to drop in a better reference design from ARM?
It's definitely not a stellar ARM laptop story, but the ARM laptops have been at market for years prior to the ARM Macbook release. Not porting Chrome for the initial release was a huge blunder IMO. No one wants to use Edge. Having a chip with performance parity targeted at Intel's i5 might have been a mistake, too.
But (while admittedly not as stellar as M1 Macbook) we have options: the Envy X2, Yoga/Flex 5G, Surface Pro X, Galaxy Book S.
The M1 validates Microsoft's strategy to embrace ARM. Hopefully the third-party software devs are able to port their software in order to make this transition easier.
Qualcomm stopped their own CPU design a while back and if they'd have kept that going then perhaps there would be a better competitor to the M1. Or maybe they just need to drop in a better reference design from ARM?