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What AirTags?  Oh, those fictitious AirTags.

Sure, why not remove the cable when the charging port is going bye-bye?  Ahhh... the whole ecology just breathed a sigh of relief.  Social media is going to go nuts.  So amusing.  They should be used to this by now.  Apple is chasing after profits and will do (remove) anything to get it.  I've got cables and adapters up the wazoo, so it doesn't matter to me.

I would think the improved battery life alone of M1 laptops would make them game-changers.  I really enjoy the long battery life of portable devices.  Getting hours of extra battery in a laptop is fantastic.  Intel and AMD with their x86 chips are going to really struggle to get extra battery life without putting in higher capacity batteries or throttling their processors.  I sincerely hope Apple can take advantage of the M1 chip's efficiency.  Knowing Apple, they'll probably do something stupid like shaving down the height of the chassis to make it lighter at the expense of longer battery life.  Thin and light is all that Apple ever strives for.  I wonder if that's what most customers want.  I certainly don't want ultra-thin and light and would rather have longer battery life.

Would there be any benefits for Microsoft to have Windows running on M1 Macs?  It's not as though Apple's Mac market share percentage is very high.  Wouldn't Microsoft be undermining its own OEM partners if they did have an official build of Windows for Apple Silicon?

canukstorm said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Why would Microsoft want to embarrass themselves (and their ARM devices) by allowing Windows on an M1 MacBook that will massively outperform their own devices?

Under Nadella, MS stopped being a Windows company so I don't think they care.

Microsoft is doing just fine as a cloud company.  I wonder if they're even making much money from Windows as there must be a huge amount of pirated copies by now.