Arm-based Macs: Smart move for Apple, but irrelevant to the future of Windows PCs
Summary
But the hottest take of all arrived this week, when Jean-Louis Gassée declared that the move to Arm will inevitably lead to the end of the Microsoft-Intel alliance and usher in "a new era of PCs. In fact, an uncharitable observer could argue that Cupertino is copying its archrival Microsoft, which ported its flagship desktop operating system, Windows 10, to Arm designs several years ago. The iPhone, iPad, and wearables (primarily AirPods and Apple Watch) bring in 10 times the amount of revenue as the Mac business. For the affluent consumers and independent professionals that make up the core of Apples market, an Arm-based Mac-iPad hybrid in a laptop form factor is a perfectly reasonable choice. But those Arm-based PCs arent going to win gold medals for performance, and the current x86 emulator has enough limitations that its hard to see why anyone would willingly use one of those curiosities as their primary PC.
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