Re: Intel's co-CEO claims retailers say Qualcomm-powered PCs have high return rates, points to new competitors with Arm chips coming in 2025

Le 2024-12-15 à 02:23, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-12-14, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-14 à 10:44, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-12-14, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

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Higher performance per watt which leads to lower power use and therefore
improved battery life. Whether Intel and AMD want to admit it or not,
people _do_ want to have a computer which can handle a whole day's work
on a single charge and which won't increase electrical bills.

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While I agree that most people want longer battery life for their laptops, I
really don't think the cost of charging a laptop is that big of a concern.

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Not to a person who lives in an area where electricity is cheap.
However, it is only going to become more expensive in places like Europe
where its production depend on a resource acquired from Russia. The same
way they switched to fuel-efficient or electric cars to lower their
reliance on gasoline, they are probably going to switch to
energy-efficient machines to reduce their need for electricity altogether.

 
If things are getting that dire in Europe they're going to have to learn
to live without computers at all.

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If this were the 80s and Europe were facing these issues, I imagine that
either Atari or Commodore would have produced a very efficient computer
which would only need to be charged once daily. Let's not forget how
popular the ST and the Amiga were over there while they were failing
miserably in North America. Because both companies are dead, the most
likely scenario is that they will move to the efficient machines made by
Apple or equipped with Qualcomm's processors. I do not think that their
energy crisis is going to get better anytime soon.