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    ARM's laptops coming.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Bullit, Dec 29, 2010.

  1. Bullit

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    SemiAccurate :: Evidence points to Apple designing ARM laptops

    My corolary:
    Intel needs to fix the time a laptop starts if they want to be still relevant in low end laptops.
     
    Bullit, Dec 29, 2010
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    What role Intel plays in time a laptop start ?

    If I am not mistaken, quite a few seconds are being spent in device initialization by the BIOS, then loading the OS which has its own share of time spend.

    If you want quick startup time, just use sleep and resume, I have been doing that since the first day I ran XP and was always puzzled by people claiming their Mac boot so fast as that is simply irrelavant, my machine always come to ready to use state within 1-2 seconds from sleep.

    EDIT:

    I don't find an iPhone(and most modern phone) to be fast at boot up, none of them beat my sleep/resume.
     
    chimpanzee, Dec 29, 2010
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  3. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I would also like to know...
     
    moral hazard, Dec 29, 2010
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    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    ARMS and MIPS...these CPU Technologies are what's pushing mp3/video player devices such as my Cowon Q5. They've been around for some time; IDK but so far I haven't been really impressed with the supposedly 'new technology' that's being shown to come.
     
    makaveli72, Dec 29, 2010
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    OP has no idea what he's talking about is what.
     
    MaX PL, Dec 29, 2010
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    LOL end of x86 monopoly on PC? What garbage is this? And Intel still being relevant on low end laptops? Ever heard of Atom (yeah it's crap but look at market share). Though with Fusion chips AMD maybe rebounding back.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Dec 30, 2010
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    Replace Stephen Hawking with Apple/Steve Jobs.
    Sensationalist Headlines + IDIOTS.
     
    weinter, Dec 30, 2010
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    it's fun because intel bios are often the ones that start the fastest (getting an intel mainboard often means having the quickest bios on a mainboard)
     
    davepermen, Dec 30, 2010
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    1) This "garbage" is some no-name blog trying to get readership through a sensationalist headline.

    2) Whatever chip architecture Apple picks, I would pick against it. They don't have a very good track record of picking good chip architectures. The only chip architecture that they picked that was successful was the 25+ year-old (at the time) x86 architecture found in pretty much every non-Apple computer in the world.

    3) Microsoft is also looking into ARM - specifically, running Windows 8 on ARM. This does not mean that laptops are dying, or the end of x86, as the "garbage" article implies. All this means is that Microsoft and Apple are trying to get their software to run on low-power chips, so that they can stay relevant in a world where things are increasingly going mobile. If tablet computing takes over, they don't want to be the only ones that aren't invited to the party.
     
    kent1146, Dec 30, 2010
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  10. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    lol you know what's funny about that is Maximum PC put that as their #1 Apple failure was choosing a chip architecture and sticking with it. Do I want Motorola? Or PowerPC? Or Intel x86? Or maybe AMD lol
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Dec 30, 2010
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  11. lupusarcanus

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    The name of the source website is 'semiaccurate'. Doesn't that say enough?

    V4R.
     
    lupusarcanus, Dec 30, 2010
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    noop. Charlie(the guy behind semiaccurate) comes from theinquirer which was founded by Magee who founded theregister uk. They have a very long history and were pretty accurate on this kind of thing.

    Charlie are often accused/labelled as apple basher, Intel fanboy.
     
    chimpanzee, Dec 30, 2010
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    I was thinking of that exact article when I saw this thread.

    Good find.
     
    kent1146, Dec 30, 2010
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    That is a very good point.
     
    Paralel, Dec 30, 2010
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    Is this not a prime example of a "friend of a friend" situation?
     
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    Lost you here.
     
    chimpanzee, Dec 30, 2010
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    Who said laptops are dying? Laptop is not a so restricted definition that needs to have x86.

    If ARM technology can do all that a low to medium x86 laptop does i don't see why they wouldn't appear.
     
    Bullit, Dec 30, 2010
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    can do all ? That is a high order as it means run all those applications.
     
    chimpanzee, Dec 30, 2010
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