With 16bit, programmers had to deal with far pointers, near pointers, segmentation. That was a lot harder than the flat linear 32 bit pointers. Also, the switch to 32bit was largely simultaneous with a switch to protected mode virtual memory, another huge quality of life improvement. The switch from 32 bit to 64 bit on x86 didn’t change anything about how programmers had to write their code.

smh my head

Fine wine baby! Oh, wrong company.

The most interesting thing is that APO dropped the power from 190W to 160W while increasing the performance.

Microsoft can’t even get text to render correctly on OLED panels. How could they do something actually difficult like a high performance emulator?

They have great efficiency at 100% load. But their idle power usage would kill any battery.