And additionally they made Intel up their game - honestly appreciate that!
5 years of decline in PC/x86 sales.. Intentionally terrible product lines of a monopoly not wanting to canabalize any higher pricing potential. Insubstantial profits available if they ever get their mobile chips on track after some terrible attempts. CPUs based on cheery forecasts of the high 5 years ago should be hitting the end of their pipelines.. A Microsoft that isn't reaĺly sure if/why it still does desktops.
As someone who has been more occupied with Arm CPUs, I wonder what someone who was paying more attention to Intel would notice and I look forward to being able to scale up straight from Arm64 to genuine AMD64.
But I also want to see ARM based laptops from both Microsoft and Apple (Though Intel has Apple by the ears with Thunderbolt until USB 3.2 becomes a viable alternative on the low end.)
Our best bet would have been ChromeOS, as it is a platform with no legacy to deal with. But even there new models are now Intel based rather than ARM.
I see why. I had a three-year-old Retina iMac that was a nightmare to set up (https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/01/5k-retina-imac-and-mac-os...) and now have a current-gen Retina iMac that was easy to set up, which is a great improvement, but the day-to-day performance increases are small. The screen is better but not by much. The GPU is apparently much better but little that I do is GPU constrained.
Laptops have gotten lighter, at least.
OTOH Intel has