The point of shitty old processors was to get them cheap. Now that RAM and storage are the biggest factors, they could have gone with newer processors and not be significantly more expensive but significantly more performant.
I honestly don't know why. If you are a Windows user and don't care about privacy, you may just as well stick with Edge. As a Chromium web browser by a megacorp, it's in no way worse than Chrome.
I’m not one of them, but what makes them idiots? Seems kind of uncalled for.
It's obviously a play on the common phrase that the honest guy ends up being the idiot. Not because the honest guy is stupid but because the honesty ends up backfiring. It's used all the time in video game DRM contexts.
RISC-V and ARM exist. You can buy laptops based on either of these architectures for a very reasonable price, compared to Intel and AMD’s x86 offerings.
Have fun dealing with that Device Tree bullshit because hardware autodetection is so 1998.
I really don’t get this latest series if tantrums from LibreOffice/The Document Foundation. They are attacking every other up-and-coming open source document project.
That's how Italo Vignoli is. He's been a source of toxic hatred even back in the OpenOffice split days, when Sun handed OpenOffice to Apache, he attacked OO because they didn't transfer the trademark to him.
Most non native games run okay under the emulation layers
That's not the point. The point is commitment of Microsoft to its own platform and that's lacking ever since the release of the first Surface RT over a decade ago.
Apple doesn't just not port Apple Chess because it would run okay under emulation. Of course they ported everything. For years Microsoft didn't even port VS Code despite the fact that even back then it was based on Chromium which already worked fine on ARM platforms.
If only the world's largest game publisher, owner of Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Minecraft, and Xbox, would port their games to this Microsoft machine. Too bad this will never happen because Microsoft and that publisher, whose name escapes me at the moment, don't cooperate.
You'd still be relying on Nvidia's userspace blob for graphics. As you perhaps know, Nvidia drivers are always only one unimplemented feature away from functional parity with Mesa drivers that Radeons and Intel GPUs use.
I would assume those people will look at Microsoft's track record of supporting ARM hardware, realize that the vast majority of Microsoft's own software still does not run on ARM natively (14 years after Surface RT launched!), and buy a MacBook Pro instead.
Companies like Asus fart out new designs every year. It's doable if the design pipeline if efficient enough.