[TheArcane]

The best strategic decision Apple has made in the last 15 years is to vertically integrate and build their own processors.

M-series is so far ahead of the game than an air-cooled M4 has better single-core performance than the best desktop PC chip money can buy. Incredible.

[criddell]

I don't understand why the non-Apple world has been so slow to copy Apple here. Are there any Windows or Linux laptops that match even the oldest M1 machines in battery life and performance?

I get that Apple has an advantage over companies like Dell and Lenovo in that they also build the OS but then there are Linux computer companies that have the source for everything and their machines are usually even worse from a performance / watt perspective.

[Kuinox]

The other CPU catch back after several months, the Apple Silicon is a good marketing prowess, the reality is that Apple CPUs wins because they are the first on to be produced on a new lithography node, because Apple can book a larger quantity than anyone else. When the other CPU manufacturer produce CPUs on the same CPU node, the performance is matched.

Here Jim Keller explain why CPU architecture doesn't matter a lot in performance now: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16762/an-anandtech-interview-...

[sureIy]

I guess it exists, especially on the Chinese market, but the apps just are not there. Windows ARM is as popular as Windows Mobile 7