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[–] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

I'm not an Apple fanboy, but arm based processors seem to be working out fairly well for them.

I own an Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, which was one of the OG snapdragon x laptops released a (two?) and a half year(s) ago. It took a while for folks to get Linux to run on them and there's enough of a barrier to entry that it's still not very common. Most of the initial hurdles were due to Qualcomm bootloader shenanigans.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    People stopped needing more processing power in their laptops years ago. For the majority of users a computer has long been a thin client for Chrome.

    Since a lot of arm design has been around efficiency and performance per watt they would be a natural choice for laptops.

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