Comment by prmoustache
20 hours ago
10y old laptops are still powerful enough for my usage. So a bit more battery life wouldn't hurt me if performance of an arm system provides at least as much in term of performance.
I am pretty sure 99% of the population is in the same situation.
The situation was 99% of Windows laptops sold ended up being the much cheaper x86 ones or similarly priced ones with more performance.
It's like phones where people say everyone will buy out any phone with more battery life and then the standard type phone is always actually what sells. Consumers will gladly pick more battery all else equal, but that's not what the snapdragon laptops have been.
Not that Apple gave consumers much choice, but when they switched over it was truly all else equal or better and it sold like hot cakes, despite many popular still needing emulation for the first year they still ran better than they would have natively in the other option anyways. Qualcomm doesn't get that nearly as easily because they are competing against the latest off all current x86 options, not a subset of older Intel options.
I'm hoping that changes with the newer Elites though. At least the performance seems to be getting there, if not the price yet.