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> That doesn't seem to be slowing down sales of laptops and minis It did and that's why Apple themselves had to backtrack when the Mini with the soldered RAM and SSD failed to sell as much as anticipated. (That's why the next version had swappable RAM, and not soldered). All things being equal, people will always choose the device that is more easy to repair and upgradeable. Apple has 2 things going for the M1 device…
> - They offer similar performance to AMD CPUs Apple doesn't use AMD and there is no supported AMD machine that can run macOS. I like my AMD-based Linux box, but, if I want macOS, that's not going to solve my needs (it won't, for instance, run Xcode)
Apple's loss, I'd say. AMD Macs would sell like hot cakes.