Qualcomm sucks. They are a major drain on the global economy due to patent trolling
This needs to be talked about a lot more. Sorry for the late comment.
Arm is a processor architecture with a more efficient instruction set than the x86 set found in Intel and AMD CPUs. It uses smaller, more optimized instructions, so the CPU can process tasks faster using less power
What is this bs, I thought the verge was better than this
In addition to calling out misinformation, it would be helpful to the discourse if you could also explain why it’s wrong and what the correct facts are, to help educate those of us who don’t know as much about the topic as you might.
Sure, the idea is it makes little sense to say and instructions set is itself and more efficient or faster. It is only the implementation that matters. It’s equivalent to saying macos is faster than windows cause of how it looks. It’s the implementation that matters.
On top of that, the specific argument they make “smaller, more optimized instructions” is doubly nonsense because all modern high-end cpus, whether x86 or arm, break instructions down into smaller subparts and run those.
When apple’s M1 came out, a lot of tech media outlets struggled to come up with a explainable reason for why it was so good beyond “appel gud engineering” and one of the main things a lot of them coalesced around was ARM somehow just being a better, faster isa, meaning a lot of people who know little about chips go around saying it and it’s pretty irritating. I’m no chip expert either, but I do know Qualcomm/apple aren’t making more efficient chips because of the ARM isa.
Since when was the verge actually decent? Before or after the pc build guide?
They can also be priced more reasonably. At $1,099, the base 13-inch MacBook Air M3 has an eight-core processor, 8GB of memory, and 256GB of storage. But at $999, the base 13-inch Surface Laptop 7 has a 10-core processor, 16GB of memory, and 256GB of storage — and you can easily upgrade that storage yourself.
