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>Why do they still bother installing Intel?

Because despite getting clobbered on desktop, Intel is still competitive in laptops and produces more than AMD can.

>Then the Ryzen one is old as well. Why not a new gen?

Because there's not enough supply.

>Why not trying ARM like Apple did?

Because people use Microsoft for backwards compatibility. They tried it before with Windows RT, and it was a flop.

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These are sane points. However, given the circumstances I don't understand why releasing a new product when it already feels few years old at launch. Just to keep themselves busy? Keep practicing releases? Maybe they could have channelled that energy towards beating Apple instead...

That I can't answer. My guess is it's to meet some sort of contract they have together, like Microsoft sells laptops with AMD processors and gets a better deal on Xbox components. The AMD SKUs seem to top out at 16GB of RAM and smaller SSDs, which signals to me MS doesn't expect to sell as many.

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