MacBook Air M1: Intel Readies Response for Windows Laptops

Yeah, this really sounds to me like a sunset of x86 hegemony with such arguments. Not to belittle the game market, of course. It's huge. The hybrid chips they're planning to release are unlikely to be cheap. We'll see.

Also, not every x86 software needs to be ported, given the available alternatives and cross-compile features.

Interesting times. :)

It's remarkably amusing because it's one of the reasons some Windows users use to point out their superiority over Linux.

It's doubly funny because the M1 is able to play the vast library of games already available for iPads and iPhones.

The new macbook air is actually decent for gaming.

On the intel macbook airs (and on most pros without gpus) playing CS:GO at full resolution was a bad experience (overheating and <60fps).

I got the cheapest M1 macbook air and it plays CS:GO with no issues and without heating up (even when the ambient temperature in my city is ~38 Celsius)

Using Chrome, Zoom and Slack sounds like a possibility.

While I work, my MBP routinely enters "hairdryer" mode.