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Intels drop is almost exactly equal to AMDs gain (20% market share between the most recent two laptop datapoints for both). If it was just intel laptops dropping out and converting to apple silicon you wouldn't expect AMD to grow.

I suspect that macs just aren't represented in this graph, probably very few people benchmarks macs when they're identical to all the other macs.

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From the notes at the bottom:

> As the PerformanceTest software only runs on Windows OS and counts on user submitting their benchmarks. This chart may be non reflective of non Windows user base.

Yes, but consider if you have three laptops:

1. intel running Windows OS

2. AMD running Windows OS

3. intel Mac running Windows (various ways)

Then the intel percentage is (1+2)/(1+2+3) and the AMD percentage is 2/(1+2+3). But if Apple hardware is a significant portion of the benchmarks, then when intel Macs disappear, the fraction of systems that can submit the benchmark decreases. So the intel percentage decreases and the AMD percentage increases.

The denominator changes identically for intel and AMD.

Apple says only between 2 and 4 % of its users use Bootcamp to run Windows.

< I suspect that macs just aren't represented in this graph

It looks like their software doesn't support macOS so it's pretty safe to say there are no Macs in the dataset.

Their software does support Andriod & iOS. It would be interested to see how these changed if they were included.

I know plenty of people who run Windows on intel Macs (particularly the laptops) in various ways and they actually do play with benchmarks to see how well it works.

They wouldn’t be running windows on the Apple Silicon macs though, just the intel ones.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Apple Silicon doesn't show up anywhere in the benchmark. If we were seeing a chart of totals rather than percentages, I'd expect to see a void where Apple Silicon entered.

Apple says only between 2 and 4 % of its users use Bootcamp to run Windows.

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