I upvoted to compensate for the downvotes, but I really curious why you think its a match made in heaven vs just using a random x86 laptop and an x86 cloud instance?
My take, is that you want to cheer Arm on in this space, not because there is some huge technical advantage, or the arch meets your fancy or whatever, but because it is adding another competitor to the space. One that brings its own baggage, but having three+ competitors competing to be the best (intel/amd/various arm vendors) is a good thing for the industry.
But the blank fanboyism is just harmful, the mid 2010's with all the Intel fanboys talking up Intel, while they screw everyone with low clocked server processors limited to 2 cores copy pasted in their laptops when you could buy a freeking phone with 8 cores, is what you get when one company gets to much market share or too far ahead of everyone else. The same thing is going to happen if gravaton becomes the dominate platform, except its going to be a case that you won't be able to buy competitive onprem hardware, or any number of other shortcomings. Or like the Mac a piece of hardware which isn't technically locked down, but also will likely always have subpar support running any operating system not shipped by apple, and could be locked down tomorrow without affecting their business one bit.
So, careful what you wish for. You want competitors that show the giant monopoly that maybe designing a processor for an actual laptop is advantageous over shoveling whatever leftovers from the hyperscalers happen to exist. You also want competitors that show up and pack 2x the cores at 1/2 the price. Or competitors that show up with huge power hungry processors that are pushing the limits of single threaded, high Ghz processors, or 500W GPUs because that is what some people need/want.
My take, is that you want to cheer Arm on in this space, not because there is some huge technical advantage, or the arch meets your fancy or whatever, but because it is adding another competitor to the space. One that brings its own baggage, but having three+ competitors competing to be the best (intel/amd/various arm vendors) is a good thing for the industry.
But the blank fanboyism is just harmful, the mid 2010's with all the Intel fanboys talking up Intel, while they screw everyone with low clocked server processors limited to 2 cores copy pasted in their laptops when you could buy a freeking phone with 8 cores, is what you get when one company gets to much market share or too far ahead of everyone else. The same thing is going to happen if gravaton becomes the dominate platform, except its going to be a case that you won't be able to buy competitive onprem hardware, or any number of other shortcomings. Or like the Mac a piece of hardware which isn't technically locked down, but also will likely always have subpar support running any operating system not shipped by apple, and could be locked down tomorrow without affecting their business one bit.
So, careful what you wish for. You want competitors that show the giant monopoly that maybe designing a processor for an actual laptop is advantageous over shoveling whatever leftovers from the hyperscalers happen to exist. You also want competitors that show up and pack 2x the cores at 1/2 the price. Or competitors that show up with huge power hungry processors that are pushing the limits of single threaded, high Ghz processors, or 500W GPUs because that is what some people need/want.