Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 20:58:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Search on "desktop computer". On the left, you'll find a CPU 
> menu. No ARM processors in it. Neither for Amazon.

Yeah, ARM's primary competitive advantage over x86 is lower power 
consumption, which means they are biased toward the portable 
market. There are still various wall-outlet arm devices, 
especially single-board computers (SBC for short) like the 
raspberry pi and pine64, but they are still a different 
form-factor than the traditional desktop... probably just because 
there's no actual need for them to be larger, and while many new 
x86 devices don't need much space either, arm devices don't have 
the same traditional history to push it out of habit either.

They also tend to be sold in those single board forms rather than 
individual components for DIYers who don't like the big brands, 
so instead of getting a CPU on newegg, you'd just order an 
all-in-one board and a case for it.

Anyway, whether wall-power SBC, or one of the portable options 
like a laptop or phone, you can connect them to all the same 
accessories to give a desktop experience: keyboard, mouse, 
speakers, monitor, and not know the difference unless you look 
under the cover for a great many tasks.