Linus Torvalds Now Using a 64-bit Arm Laptop - Ditches x86 While on the Road

thing is i want a machine can do it all so that is why unless game creators make games run on ARM chips as well as x86, i wun be going ARM at least on the desktop space? also i like to assemble my own system not be locked in into X RAM only or Y class GPU for the hardware (SOC)

Maybe it'll happen one day, but I don't see it happening any time soon because of the lack of backward compatibility. Most consumers just don't care about Intel vs. ARM. They just want a computer that runs the programs they already have. As a result, the market for this sort of thing is too small for hardware manufacturers to want to produce ARM laptops in large enough quantities for the price to come down.

It's probably because Arm Windows hasn't caught up. The cheapest fastest devices are smartphones/tablets. Orange Pi 5 is not bad, but mobile development is leapfrogging.

Only 32b arm has full register multi-stacks with the stm/ldm commands. Great for npu memory and interm conclusion processing.💓👽😇,jpk

why would you need an arm if there's RISC-V coming

Don't worry Gary in two or three years second hand m1 laptops will get quite inexpensive :)

Im a huge arm fan. Been daily driving arm linux since my note 9 with linux on dex, moved to raspberry pi and now on the fold 3 with my own personal setup that i daily drive. For gaming i use services like GeForce Now since im not a huge gamer.

But cheap ARM laptops do exist, namely certain models of chromebooks

Absolutely this. Torvalds is almost always ahead of the game when it comes to technical leadership and x86 has been really limiting for a long time. Just the fact that platform relies on proprietary BIOS firmware essentially unchanged since 1979 is pretty indicative of where x86 stands.

I am a person who has dreamed of a commercial computer/notebook using ARM architecture for years. I see that the biggest problem is the lack of industry standardization. You find several development boards using ARM like RaspberryPI. However, it is necessary to standardize a type of SOCKET for the ARM processor and a standard motherboard configuration. Unlike the x86 market that only has two manufacturers, ARM processors have several. No one is going to invest, at this first moment, in a motherboard that forces them to be tied to a single manufacturer. A motherboard that supports several different models and manufacturers is the best solution.

"we need inexpensive arm based laptops" he shouts - and does not even mention the pinebook pro ...

The pinebook pro is a Laptop with a Hexa-Core Rockchip RK3399 and 4GB LPDDR4 RAM that is selling for just over 200 USD right now (+ shipping from hong kong and all that) - not exactly high performance by any means, but a brand new x86 based laptop for around $200-300 would not be a racehorse either ...

Much easier for Apple to put out Arm based that it is for Microsoft who supports so many companies. Im not interested in ARM based right now.

Linus Torvalds did not build the Linux Operating System. He build the kernel and used the GNU tools for the Operating System. You probably seen the term GNU/Linux before.

I'm allergic to Apple gear.

They are building ARM servers which are lucrative. So why will they do a PC ? The Cloud Industry is buying in Bulk and server hardware is profitable no reason to focus on the niche.

An OS (or platform) is just a means to end, it's what you can run on it that matters.

WiFi mesh, like 1 laptop per child OLPC?

Scratch/squeek performance?

Gary everything done by apple is amazing for you by default.

Linus is human being far from being perfect. Unabomber was a math genius.
Luck spreading the apple cult.

Linus Torvalds is the creator of the Linux kernel. The rest of the OS comes from GNU and a few other sources, and the OS should probably be called GNU/Linux. If you have a different opinion regarding the OS name you are welcome to it.