On Lu, 29 oct 12, 21:06:36, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > The second big reason is that neither Microsoft nor ISVs will profit > from a non x86 CPU architecture entering the desktop space. Supporting > ARM would simply cost them money. So there's no incentive to support > ARM, thus it's dead before it gets started on the desktop. AFAIU Windows 8 will be available also for ARM. > Third, "Wintel" is more than just nickname. It's already not in MS' > interest to support ARM, and it's definitely not in Intel's interest, so > when Intel says "don't do it", it's dead. While the Atoms and the -bridges are much better at power consumption then their predecessors (and even at performance / Watt compared to ARM as far as I recall) the ARM processors are still using significantly less power, while their processing power is *already* good enough for tablets and low power laptops. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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