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> The Simula One has compute specs that are legitimately comparable to a premium office laptop. For example, it supports an x86 architecture (i.e. just like a premium laptop), instead of an ARM based architecture like the Quest Pro (an architecture which runs on mobile phones and other portable devices).

Pretty sure my ARM Macbook with 24GB RAM is a “premium laptop”

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Yes, for sure; however, the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 and 12GB of RAM on the Quest Pro isn't that.

We're also fundamentally a Linux Desktop platform, which ARM is finnicky with. We wanted to give people an experience that was truly comparable to what they would expect out of a comparable premium (Linux) laptop.

> Pretty sure my ARM Macbook with 24GB RAM is a “premium laptop”

Pretty sure the M1 isn't just a generic ARM processor but rather something Apple specifically designed for their use case.

I challenge you to point to just one more vendor delivering a premium laptop experience based on ARM. Even better, please point to a chipset vendor that will license that technology to a third party to use as a platform for their hardware.

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