Because they have tiny batteries because they have massive room dedicated for the GPU, CPU, their cooling and the ability to swap out more components than any of the Mac options do, often including adding more than 1 drive. On huge devices like that a battery is more of a "battery backup" than a power source.
EXACTLY!
Kind of hard (for me) to see Apple and Microsoft and equal competitors given that Microsoft is in more markets than Apple. Consider Azure cloud and Microsoft's efforts to push more ARM processors. Perhaps they will offer VMs for Intel based applications and OS. If that turns out to be the case, wouldn't it make sense that Microsoft "encourage" businesses to move over to Azure and use the VMs for non-native ARM apps and OS until such time? As for desktop/laptop - I would be curious to see how Intel morphs and AMD. This is not an opinion that this is what is going to happen but perhaps a reasonable scenario. Thoughts?
Office 365 works quite as well on M1 Macs as on the Intel ones now. Of course in the first 9 months or so, running on Rosetta the apps were no faster and were a little unstable but once the Apple Silicon versions came out last fall, the Office apps were find and run faster than on an equivalent Intel Mac.
lts like the only place I see people say this is online. I've supported Teams for multiple companies for years and it's never been an issue in any of those environments. The only "big" issue I've encountered in the probable 600+ installations I've managed are occasionally status synchronizing between phone and desktop or due to a home user with ****** web latency.
Well, I normally do as my current job uses Google's apps, but my new job is based on Microsoft and Teams, so not like I can avoid it.
If you focus on all of Microsoft versus the Mac, that's true. However, all Apple devices run on ARM, so limiting the discussion to the Mac doesn't make sense. Especially since you go on to add Microsoft cloud services to the discussion.
I appreciate what you are saying. My thoughts were more about how Microsoft is pushing forward with ARM in other markets and thus, difficult to compare. Consider as I mentioned the use of ARM in their cloud services and the drive to further convince companies to include or switch over entirely to Azure. Legacy items might require VMs that are migrated from Intel based machines. Like other cloud services, not only would they replace Intel systems that preexist but also expand. I guess the overlap between Microsoft and Apple might be a topic unto itself and the disparate areas of each that both engage ARM as another discussion. Your thoughts, please.
The title of your post "Microsoft is changing the game. How will Apple and M chips fair?" isn't actually discussed in your first post, which mentions Intel, AMD, and NVidia as potential losers.
I guess there is a bit of a disconnect (for me here).
In the context of the Mac, and M1, that doesn't have much relevance. Those Azure ARM instance are for metered servers, and targeted to compete with things like AWS Graviton. What happens in the "infinitely scalable" cloud space shouldn't be used as any kind of signal for what is going on in the consumer space. The needs and requirements are completely different, as is the scale.
Teams isn't Office just like Visual Studio Code isn't Visual Studio. Completely different product with a completely different code base. The Microsoft marketing dept likes to confuse. Reminds me of:
Of course cloud resources are only "infinitely scalable" if you have an "infinite" amount of money.
I would like to agree, but since it’s bundled in with Office.Teams isn't Office just like Visual Studio Code isn't Visual Studio. Completely different product with a completely different code base. The Microsoft marketing dept likes to confuse. Reminds me of:
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Being bundled with Office does not make it part of Office and doesn’t mean someone should avoid the Mac version of Office and install Windows on their Mac because they want to use Word or PowerPoint on a Mac. There are good reasons for some power users to avoid MacOS Excel but those users should probably also stick to Windows on Intel. There are other products bundled with Office that aren’t even available on the Mac but for someone just using the core Office products that does not matter.
Those servers are likely to handle VMs so yes, there is some relevance given that the migration of businesses are often of OS and applications that work with Intel. I am keenly aware they are a response to AWS. Running more efficient and cooler, the ARM processors appear to be good candidates to replace far more of Azure than what you mentioned. The latter, simply conjecture.
Except that’s not what Microsoft announced:
The new Electron app is half way there, only problem is when you use the Webcam it cycles through your CPU and burns battery but right now it only uses 1.5GB instead of 3GB of RAM.
