Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market::“They’ve been relegated to pretty insignificant roles in the PC business.”

  • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    ARM just makes sense for portable devices for obvious reasons, x86 isn’t dying though. For the average person who needs a laptop to do some professional-managerial work ARM is perfect.

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      1 year ago

      What are those reasons that you think are so obvious? I have no idea what you could be referring to 😅

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        1 year ago

        ARM is more efficient and as a “system on chip” reduces the need for as many other components on the boards, phones for example. Unless you’re doing heavy cpu or gpu intensive tasks there’s a bunch of upsides and no downsides to ARM.

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          1 year ago

          That’s my impression as well. I’m confused about the “just”. There’s many non-portable devices that don’t have too heavy workloads and that I’d think would benefit from better energy efficiency.

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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah the article is about the laptop market, but of course all sort of non-portable devices run on non-x86 platform. I’d even say x86 is the minority unless you reduce it to just desktop workstations.

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        1 year ago

        Arm tends to be a lot more power efficient, so you can get better battery life on portable devices.

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          1 year ago

          And lower power consumption and heat production on all devices, so I don’t get the “just”

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      1 year ago

      There is also a sizable market for laptops that do not do much more than log onto a remote desktop. Especially with remote working, that has becomes the perfect middle ground between security, cost, and ease of use. A cheap ARM processor would work perfectly for those machines.

      • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’m a sysadmin and would much rather have a light arm machine to remote in from than a standard Intel laptop.