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by webmobdev
1733 days ago
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> That doesn't seem to be slowing down sales of laptops and minis It did and that's why Apple themselves had to backtrack when the Mini with the soldered RAM and SSD failed to sell as much as anticipated. (That's why the next version had swappable RAM, and not soldered). All things being equal, people will always choose the device that is more easy to repair and upgradeable. Apple has 2 things going for the M1 devices: - They are priced cheaper to make the hardware attractive. - They offer similar performance to AMD CPUs (with the advantage of lower power consumption.) Both these factors help overcome the obvious deficiency - that the hardware is not upgradeable or repairable and the system software is limited to one OS. If Apple's ARM processors cannot keep up with AMD / Intel / other ARM cpus, both hardware and software limitations become glaring. And Apple is left with only the price advantage. (And we all know that Apple doesn't play that game as it isn't interested in the low margins market). |
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Apple doesn't use AMD and there is no supported AMD machine that can run macOS.
I like my AMD-based Linux box, but, if I want macOS, that's not going to solve my needs (it won't, for instance, run Xcode)