“You can’t create a set of rules and expect them to work forever”

It may be tempting to adopt a scorched-earth approach to buying new hardware for your business, but that won’t solve your security problems

2024 marked a turning point in personal computing. For now, I’m going to ignore the corporate and business space, which Intel-based PCs still dominate, and will continue to do so for the next five years or more. The home market is where change is rushing towards us, as so many of the new laptop designs are moving to different processor platforms. It’s now possible to conduct all your computing activities without using a CPU made by Intel, or indeed without using the entire architecture that has powered personal computing for the past three decades. This change is all down to the Microsoft/Qualcomm development deal. It’s a partnership that has been in progress for a good few years, with the Surface Pro X its one-time flagship model, but it only really…

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