Originally posted by schmidtbag
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MS dumped tons of cash in anything that could bring it out of their current cul-de-sac (as Intel can't provide noteworthy hardware anymore to push people to actually upgrade their PC, let's ignore for a second that if they made a modern laptop like 1 cm thicker it would last for days) and this means also going experimental, Qualcomm also isn't in a great position either as smartphones won't need much more powerful CPUs than top tier we had years ago.
HP was overrun by salespeople decades ago, their stuff has been hit-and-miss since, and in most cases on the crap side (at least on laptops). I've seen laptops that have so fucked up ACPI tables that even Windows has issues with it (ACPI.sys using constantly 30-40-60% of CPU, depending on CPU type, just look it up, it's hilarious), and hinges are garbage on average.
But anyway, HP and ASUS are in the same spot as everyone else in the PC sector, they need something new and different because x86 CPUs can't just be the sole force to drive sales anymore.
Only PC hardware that sells decently are AppleBooks, everyone else is getting a decrease in sales that goes on and on and on since years ago.
And this sets a motive to "do something". And that's a very good one. I'm just skeptical that they chose the right path with ARM laptops (or that there is at all such "right path").
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