>...horrible power requirements. ... perfectly fine for a desktop computer. Just not so great for phones, tablets and portable computers.
Except no one buys desktop computers any more: everyone's using phones, tablets, and laptop computers. There's also servers, but even here power efficiency is important; reduced power requirements for a datacenter would save a lot of money, not just in direct electricity consumption by the servers, but also from reduced cooling needs.
Ah, that is why Sony and Microsoft are now eyeing PC versions of console games, because no one ever buys gaming rings any longer, aka desktop computers.
Also what do you think most contributors to LLVM, GCC, CUDA, VFX,.. use as daily driver?
I don't think those numbers are correct at all: they appear to be grouping laptops in with "personal computers". We're talking about desktop computers here.
Yeah, and not only that, many of those "desktops" are probably "workstations". We had heavy compute requirements at my last job so we were assigned workstations with dual Xeon CPUs, not standard Intel desktop chips.
Outside of a couple unusual places like that, laptops have been the standard for workplaces over the last couple decades for me.
Before that laptops were not quite limited to managers, but they did signify higher status (if not necessarily pay). Today it‘s iPads that signify status.
Except no one buys desktop computers any more: everyone's using phones, tablets, and laptop computers. There's also servers, but even here power efficiency is important; reduced power requirements for a datacenter would save a lot of money, not just in direct electricity consumption by the servers, but also from reduced cooling needs.