• dinckel@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Call it what you want, but for the consumers, this is a massive win. Just like back in the days with x86, Intel kept releasing overpriced garbage without any competition, is what Qualcomm are doing today with ARMv8

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        8 months ago

        Call it what you want, but for the consumers, this is a massive win

        That’s what I meant. Competition is always good for the consumers. did you think I was being sarcastic? This is amazing development

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    8 months ago

    Honestly, if it had good drivers and proper UEFI support, I would use a laptop with a Mediatek CPU. Most of my workflow is either web-based or already supports ARM.

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      8 months ago

      Only a very small subset of consumers care about custom rom support