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1 - laptops usually ship windows out of the box 2 - windows ARM has some trouble due to partnerships 3 - not all apps will have equal parity between older arch to ARMs
Changes are bound to happen. They don’t want to pay for the ARMs fees probably. And if they don’t bring something at Apple Silicon level, it would be an issue to intel: Intel giant producer of CPUs Apple new to laptop/desktop grade cpu designs Kinda shameful
People are going to start to wonder what they have all the Windows OS for when all they do is run a browser. If someone makes a less hassle Linux distro...that runs well on Arm... Well we could finally have some advancement in mobile computing. ChromeOS was almost it but Google made it all cloud and Google only.
If you say browser only, then you are relegating to the cloud, no? Is then Google not doing things right?
Windows for Arm is surprisingly useful, and especially the x86 emulation works pretty well - for what I've been doing so far more seamless than the emulation on MacOS. The bigger problem is that the tooling for utilizing it in a corporate environment is still pretty much missing. You can't get release images from Microsoft, you either go via insider builds, or download release builds via 3rd party sites which index and extract Microsofts artifacts - both not really acceptable. Additionally the tools for customising installations and creating unattended images don't work for Arm yet.
On top of that there's not much hardware available, and it tends to be overpriced. I got a bunch of HP notebooks quite cheaply, and recently was looking into getting one Thinkpad as they have a 32GB option (HP has 8 and 16, and 16 is not enough for serious use nowadays). Seems the 32GB option is not available in EU at all, and while they're running a sale in the US which makes a 32GB available for a decent price there here in the EU I'd pay significantly more for a lower spec variant.