I mean, ARM chips have been at that level of performance for at least a decade by now. Normal people’s most strenuous activity is watching Youtube, which every cellphone since what? 2005? could do.
power consumption in relation to computational power
The thing is that’s very much not the actual situation for most people.
Only Apple really has high performance, very low power ARM chips you can’t really outclass.
Qualcomm’s stuff is within single-digit percentage points of the current-gen AMD and Intel chips both in power usage, performance, and battery life.
I mean, that’s a FANTASTIC achievement for a 1st gen product, but like, it’s not nearly as good as it should be.
The problem is that the current tradeoff is that huge amounts of the software you’ve been using just does not work, and a huge portion of it might NEVER work, because nobody is going to invest time in making it behave.
(Edit: assuming the software you need doesn’t work in the emulation layer, of course.) You might get Photoshop, but you won’t get that version of CS3 you actually own updated. You might get new games, but you probably won’t get that 10 year old one you like playing twice a year. And so on.
The future might be ARM, but only Apple has a real hat in the ring, still.
(Please someone make better ARM chips than Apple, thanks.)___
I mean, ARM chips have been at that level of performance for at least a decade by now. Normal people’s most strenuous activity is watching Youtube, which every cellphone since what? 2005? could do.
The thing is that’s very much not the actual situation for most people.
Only Apple really has high performance, very low power ARM chips you can’t really outclass.
Qualcomm’s stuff is within single-digit percentage points of the current-gen AMD and Intel chips both in power usage, performance, and battery life.
I mean, that’s a FANTASTIC achievement for a 1st gen product, but like, it’s not nearly as good as it should be.
The problem is that the current tradeoff is that huge amounts of the software you’ve been using just does not work, and a huge portion of it might NEVER work, because nobody is going to invest time in making it behave.
(Edit: assuming the software you need doesn’t work in the emulation layer, of course.) You might get Photoshop, but you won’t get that version of CS3 you actually own updated. You might get new games, but you probably won’t get that 10 year old one you like playing twice a year. And so on.
The future might be ARM, but only Apple has a real hat in the ring, still.
(Please someone make better ARM chips than Apple, thanks.)___