He is right. I'm still waiting for that ARM-based laptop with awesome battery life, which can run a proper OS with good speed and hence is not just a toy. Apple switching to ARM won't make much difference since I gather it will only run OSX, which will probably be pretty much iOS at that time. Yes, you will probably be able to run Linux on that thing, but almost nobody will actually do it because it makes much more sense to buy a cheaper x86-based machine instead. Yes, there are ARM-based laptops running Windows, and they are a joke. For instance, c't just tested the Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS, and it's a disaster, plain and simple.
If Apple makes such hardware, it will be just a matter of time to port Linux to it. Probably easier than getting it to run on yet another weird internal architecture of a smartphone.
And you can run Linux on that Yoga. It's just Windows for ARM that is the disaster...
You'll probably be able to run Windows 10 on a future Apple ARM-based laptop, though I imagine the problem will be getting Windows drivers for the GPU.
I love my ARM-powered Chromebook. True, it can’t teally do native development, but ARM clients aren just coming. They’re here. And wow doesn’t have amazing battery life and an unbrickable OS.
