January 21, 2021

397: Electron Ennui

55 minutes

Is performance the ultimate requirement? What amount of compromise are we comfortable with?

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Electron package guidelines

— Arch Linux provides global electron and versioned electron* packages that can be used to run an electron application via a shellscript wrapper.

Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO

— “We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes, Gelsinger reportedly told Intel employees. “We have to be that good, in the future.”

Intel suggests it will wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis - oregonlive.com

MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, M1 Rumors

— This week was sure a busy one in the Apple world, with a flurry of announcements out of CES early in the week followed by a rash of Mac- and iPhone-related rumors later in the week.

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