When will they learn that architecture change is a game of software support and getting devs on board for it. The last launch was a dumpsterfire precisely because of this.
You can brute force x86 emulation with more cores and more gigahertz.
But why use an arm cpu at that point? Modern x86 mobile chips also came a long way in terms of power and efficiency.
A quad core desktop cpu from 2013 is enough for casual computing still.
A good desktop quad core from 2013 will even be fine for moderately demanding tasks (complex excel sheets, data heavy line of business apps, a lot of gaming outside AAA from the last few years), as long as your other components are fine (NVMe SSD, at least 16 GB high speed RAM, good dGPU that’s not older than 6-7 years, respectable cooling).
When will they learn that architecture change is a game of software support and getting devs on board for it. The last launch was a dumpsterfire precisely because of this.
You can brute force x86 emulation with more cores and more gigahertz. But why use an arm cpu at that point? Modern x86 mobile chips also came a long way in terms of power and efficiency. A quad core desktop cpu from 2013 is enough for casual computing still.
A good desktop quad core from 2013 will even be fine for moderately demanding tasks (complex excel sheets, data heavy line of business apps, a lot of gaming outside AAA from the last few years), as long as your other components are fine (NVMe SSD, at least 16 GB high speed RAM, good dGPU that’s not older than 6-7 years, respectable cooling).