I&#x27;m aware of the shortcomings of the ARM-based Windows notebooks. But they mostly failed because there are no great &quot;universal&quot; apps.<p>Chromebooks have no such issue, because for one they are &quot;browser-based&quot; so ISA-agnostic, and two, Android apps are also ISA-agnostic for the most part. In fact the majority of native apps were optimized for ARM, not x86, last I checked, so if anything it&#x27;s Intel&#x27;s hardware that could cause some issues with some apps on Play Store-enabled Chromebooks.<p>As for performance, Apple&#x27;s A9X can beat Core M on many workloads. A9X is probably no more than $35. That Core M was $280 (that&#x27;s what the OEMs pay when they bundle them in their devices, possibly with some light negotiation).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;221881-apples-a9x-goes-head-to-head-against-intels-core-m-in-arm-x86-grudge-match" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;221881-apples-a9x-goes-hea...</a>