Just like with cars, they will work hard to turn this into a viable alternative within a short timeframe. Once a Chinese laptop running Linux on ARM at comparable performance but half the cost of an american one hits store shelves, it’ll be game over.
lol who would willingly use Harmony?
Windows users probably.
Windows user here: Fuck no.
if or when Linux works on that system, that’ll be a viable option.
Who doesnt want an “anti fraud” app running on your devices all the time. Daddy Xi really wants to protect all his beloved children from the evil foreign “scams” by actively
monitoringlooking out for all under hisreignprotection!So exactly the same thing the tech bro CEOs are doing, except they’re doing it to sell all of our information, without any nice words towards our protection.
China’s govt may be shitty, but so are ours. And all of them are doing nearly identical shit to the citizenry. It’s so goddamn exhausting.
I have a feeling they’d lock them down and prevent alternate os installs.
Exhibit A: You can easily find bootloader-unlockable phones in the west (Google, Motorola), and in Europe, even some of the Chinese phonese are bootloader unlockable. But in mainland China, bootloader unlocks are being being heavily restricted.
Extrapolating from this behavior, its not hard to see them doing the same in the future for personal computers.
To be fair those are actively being locked down in the west as well. Google has said as much and has been moving in that direction. Apple already does that and has since day one.
Extrapolating from there says we end up in the same place, except for us it’s CEOs doing it with government backing, and in China’s case it’s the government telling the tech companies to do it out of the gate.
Is that really any different?
The Korean tech companies are doing the same as well if you look at Samsung.
My point being that you can’t trust any western corporation any more than you can trust the Chinese government. None of them are in it for consumers, all of them are using us as pawns in their stupid little fascism game.
Printer companies do it, network companies have been caught doing all kinds of shit to exfiltrate data. At this stage, the war is already over and the vast majority don’t even know one happened at all. We’re officially at the stage of “If you didn’t build it from scratch yourself, from the natural resources all the way to final product yourself, it cannot and should not be trusted.” Sadly the average user isn’t even going to notice, let alone rebel against it.
Yeah I’ll believe it when I hold it.
said the armless man
Skepticism isn’t a disability. Blind faith might be.
I agree with you, being skeptical without proof is healthy. But given that most stuff is made in China and then imported from, its not far fetched to believe this being possible. And this is not something where Ai could have done slop work for them (I hope not).
I tend to believe this being true, but I’m worried about price to performance, and compatibility. Well, I’m not worried for myself though…
Probably you meant “harmless”, because there is no reason to call the person “armless”.
How much for RAM?
16 GB of LPDDR5 memory
Not how many, but how much it cost.
How’s the graphics card?
There’s no separate graphics card, it’s an ARM-based SOC.
I would not expect it to be anything even remotely special in terms of performance. Enough to drive a display or two, accelerate video and GUI elements, run some light games. It doesn’t need to do anything more - and more isn’t within the capabilities of Chinese chip manufacturers anyway.
