cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10871867
Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10871867
Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops
World follows Apple’s lead again, but go ahead Lemmy, complain some more about how Apple is the reason your life is miserable.
What a weird thing to say out of nowhere.
Persecution complex is a helluva drug
Lemmy bitches nonstop about Apple out of nowhere. Then, they’ll be excited about something like this and pretend it wasn’t Apple that is the reason this is happening.
Apple didn’t invent the ARM laptop
No one was interested in an ARM laptop until Apple launched M1.
Edit: downvotes don’t make you right.
I had a buddy who was a Linux ARM laptop fanatic back in like 2014. Microsoft had been trying to make Windows on ARM a thing for years before that.
Apple was the first to popularize it but it’s been a work in progress if you’ve been paying attention for a LOT longer. What helped Apple is all the work they did on their own ARM chips for iOS. They managed to get pretty close to x86 performance in an ARM chip. They also had an app store of apps that could run on them and an emulator for things that wouldn’t.
Every time Microsoft tried nobody would release ARM builds… People just bought the x86 laptops. It’s the same chicken and egg problem desktop Linux has had for years.
…so, you admit it then. I don’t see where we disagree.
Now that Apple has done it, the PC world wants to do it for real this time.
Look, the difference is in the language. One company hasn’t “done it”, the industry as a whole moves, sometimes cooperatively other times in a tug of war.
As the commenter above mentioned, Apple was in a unique position of being able to leverage all the work done in the phone and tablet spaces to push for an ARM laptop. This helped other manufacturers which already showed an interest in doing the same.
On the other hand, with the lock in mechanisms apple has in their products they also stifles competition and innovation in other areas.
They can both help push and hinder innovation. Just like any company. It’s not about hating or loving a corporate entity.
Imagine mistaking huge marketing & takeover budget for innovation.
Oh, you’re right the M1 chip is not real. It’s just a figment of marketing. 😂
It’s just Windows holding back the industry again. X86 could be long gone if MacOS and Linux would be most popular.
Windows runs on ARM just fine, it’s the legacy apps that are holding the industry back. Just like some institutions are still running AS/400 machines because nobody can port the programs they’re using.
I blame MS because they have repeatedly failed to light a big enough fire under app devs to get them to migrate to modern APIs and write more arch agnostic code, nor have they provided the tooling to get it done. Why isn’t the default on every MS compiler for Windows to produce fat binaries for x86 and ARM? That alone would help adoption greatly.