Is this memory based on silicon, or something else, like GaAs or Germanium or Graphene or something else?

No, sometimes, while playing, it suddenly goes into the desktop, even though I didn't press the 'Windows' key

But it doesn't get around what RMS has been campaigning for - getting people to stop using Apple products. My question was - let's say people do like he suggests. What are the alternatives that his organizations provide that would enable them to continue to work seamlessly as before? Fine, they can't produce a better phone or tablet. But they can produce a phone using, say, Replicant. So why don't they do it, starting in small volumes, and encouraging people to buy that, using 'libre' as their selling pitch? Somewhat like the Librem laptops in the other Purism story here?

Since it's Debian, one would presumably be able to install SteamOS on it?

Until it got changed in Windows 8

Windows 7 is 64-bit in most of its installed base. It's XP that was/is 32-bit

Unbreakable Linux is RHEL, which had stopped supporting SPARC a while ago. While Unbreakable Linux never supported SPARC in the first place

Yeah. Oracle could put Oracle Linux on it, instead of Solaris, otherwise it could cannibalize the high end Sparc servers. Or if Linux is no longer an option, maybe OpenBSD or FreeBSD.

GP was talking about the #transistors, not cores :=))

His problem w/ Apple - which was why he celebrated Jobs' death - was that Apple had come out w/ several locked down features that limited the ability of their users to customize Apple products to their needs - that was his reference to golden chains which was there in one of his past interviews w/ /.. That was a part of what I was referring to in my question - why doesn't his FSF come up w/ a tablet or a phone that is as good as Apple or Android, but 'respects freedom' to the levels that he requires.

Something that's nowhere near as abundant as silicon

This could bring Intel/HP's Itanium back to life. Make a center w/ 8192 Itanium CPUs, and all the storage needed. Have that located in AK, to make cooling easier.

I'm planning to at some point get an AIO or laptop, install SteamOS on it and run my Steam games. Running Steam games on Windows - sometimes, in the middle of a move, it randomly leaves the application and goes to the Windows desktop. Don't like doing that

People don't have to buy a lot of applications, but applications bought could have different interfaces and behavior when used on laptops vs tablets/phones. Using Skype? The laptop version could include the IM section, but that could be excluded from the tablet/phone interface. Just as an example.

On the phone side, one thing Microsoft has gotten right is the Universal app store. That way, I can run Yelp! - currently available only on the phone OSs - on a tablet or even laptop, w/o opening a browser. Hope it also solves one issue Windows Phone 8.x had - most apps being 'web containers'

But non touch laptops are completely different things from tablets, phones and touch laptops. It never made sense having the same interface for both. It's trying to wear hand mitts on your feet instead of socks, or socks on your hands instead of gloves.

If you recall, previous versions of Windows CE and Windows Mobile had the same UI as Windows XP. Which was a bad interface for those things. In Windows 8, they flipped the mistake, not forcing a touch interface for desktops & laptops and having that long horizontal scrollbar if you don't have a touch screen laptop (which I in any case don't want to touch & smudge)

The other thing is that while the Metro interface was actually good for Metro applications, if you open one in Windows 8.1, it goes into the desktop and then opens it. Why? A lot of the apps that Microsoft bundles, like News, Food, Health, Games et al can be opened w/o needing the desktop at all. The desktop should only be there if an app is invoked from it. Such as Notepad, or Office, et al.

In Windows 10, while the restoration of the 7 like interface is somewhat good (except for forcing the large icons to show up when you press the Start button), the tablet mode is worse. What it does is just rearrange the screen, putting the icons on the right and the entire list of apps on the left. They could have just left the Metro interface there intact. I have a Winbook on which I had been testing the Preview Edition of 10 (will download the RTM this Sunday) and Tablet mode has been tough to deal w/.