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It's not. RISC-V and ARM exist. You can buy laptops based on either of these architectures for a very reasonable price, compared to Intel and AMD's x86 offerings.
Of course, that means no AAA gaming, for the most part at least. But then again, who even plays AAA games these days?
Have fun dealing with that Device Tree bullshit because hardware autodetection is so 1998.
those are not consumer friendly
Gaming industry is way bigger than movie industry. Almost everyone plays games.
Steam alone has like 40 million concurrent players right now.
Most money goes into mobile money traps, though.
Err many people? And Linux gaming is on the rise too.
Consumer ARM hardware mostly needs customized images for each board. Plus, depending on your CPU manufacturer you'll be stuck on an ancient kernel version to get full functionality.
And the performance/watt is not that exceptional.
(Serious) is there really a reasonably priced arm laptop? Which one? I only see apple silicon and some over 2k dollars laptops. Does it have good battery life and performance?