Comment Re:"more that it wants to chew" (Score 0, Troll) 165
When you have as much money as Apple there is very little it cannot gnaw upon.
True, and when you are as greedy and morally challenged as Apple is, that is bad news for society in general.
When you have as much money as Apple there is very little it cannot gnaw upon.
True, and when you are as greedy and morally challenged as Apple is, that is bad news for society in general.
Maybe "spent a lot of time" meant they copied the work of the "android x86" guys... Reinventing the wheel?
Ah, ahem, that's what you are supposed to do in open source, that's how it works. It's massively parallel, effort is supposed to be duplicated. Good things happen that way.
I must have completely missed the point of OSS; I thought the idea was to share code so that people didn't have to continually reinvent the wheel.
You didn't complete miss the point, you just missed half of it.
Whoa, look, a really determined spinbot came along days after the thread died and modded me down for drawing attention to the number of transistors Intel spends on decoding its rambling instruction set. Disgusting behavior, disgusting culture.
I can't get my Xoom to heat up no matter what I do, whereas the Atom is always hot. Plus the triangle throughput of the tegra 2 puts the Atom junk to shame.
Intel can't start selling arms, they'd have to sell at reasonable margin and their margin would tank, likewise their stock. Intel has just got to keep hanging on to that X86 compatibility thing for dear life.
why don't you guys just buy transformers if that's what you guys are after?
Because I already bought a Xoom quite some time before the Transformer came out and I'm happy with it. Solid as a rock.
You know deep down this is bullshit... right? I mean, most ARM designs offer multiple instruction sets anyway! The power costs of this are way way overstated - especially today
Ah, I don't think you're right about that. Have you looked at the amount of x86 die consumed by instruction translation? Here it's about 20% of the die not counting cache and I doubt Intel does it any better. Plus Intel keeps lathering on new, incompatible instruction sets like a kid in a candy store. The cows are now coming home on that one.
Intel is, as usual, a node ahead of basically everyone else.
And they need it with their architectural disadvantage.
Other fabs just got their 28nm half node online not long ago, late last year.
Half node is the new full node. TSMC has a good chance of having 20 nm before Intel has 14 nm, so there is the possibility of a window of up to a year when TSMC is on 20 nm with intel at 22 nm. Interesting game.
No, he meant 1802, which completely outclasses 6809 in terms of transistor count. Less than the very first ARM even.
As ARM grows, both Intel and ARM will start invading each others territories.
And ARM collects what, $.10 or $1 license fee per chip while Intel is addicted to multibillion dollar income or it will get lynched by its shareholders. Read the writing on the wall.
Oh sorry, I just compared the key spacing to a full size keyboard and it's the same, just more compact layout of fn keys and no numeric pad.
I go at full speed on my 90% bluetooth keyboard, that's 80-90 words/second, just slightly slower than talking.
screen is too small, which means that the keyboard is too small
Dual or quad core 10" ARM tablet with bluetooth keyboard and mouse is a really sweet hardware setup, I use it on a daily basis, e.g., for vidcon etc. We just need to fix Android to be more like a standard window manager and it will be ideal.
My take on it is, Windows 8 for ARM is the new WINCE.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
