Sean Hollister

It comes out, and it just...

upends our concept of what laptop performance and battery life could be overnight.

And I think that might literally be the headline we put on the story that Hein Gartenberg wrote for us.

It upends this whole concept overnight because we expect that it's going to have this tremendous performance penalty or battery life penalty or something because it has to translate software that was designed to work on Intel Macs

into software that works on ARM Macs.

But they figure out that translation the same way that Valve and its Linux community figure out how to translate Windows software to run on a handheld device with Linux.

Like, we're transporting software from one realm to another through this tunnel.

But this time, the tunnel is good.

The tunnel is so good that performance actually turns out to be better because the chip, you know, it doesn't require as much cooling.

It's a more efficient chip anyhow.

And without that performance penalty, it's like, look how far we can run.

And so they run very, very far.

And every other company needs to react to that.

And they need to react to that quickly.

They don't react to it as quickly as they want, but they up their game.

And Intel just now is coming into its own.

AMD came into its own a little while ago.

It started having better battery life than Intel, and it also started having excellent mobile graphics.

So the integrated graphics in the laptop, suddenly those were great.

And it doesn't have as much battery life as Apple, maybe not, but there.