Thank you Dan, that actually makes a lot of sense looking at it from that standpoint.
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 8:37 AM +0000 5/7/2011, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> An opinion. [zdnet link] >> > > LOL. This was all done in the press as minor stories back in January. > It's only now that they've picked it up again during this slow news cycle. > > Ok... The facts: > > ARM is an up and coming architecture whoze implementation is getting faster > and faster with each generation. However, it is currently 32-bit only. > > Back in January, at CES in Las Vegas, ARM made the announcement that > they're going 64-bit and their intention is to get into the server-grade > processor market. ETA for delivery is a year or less. > > At that same CES, Microsoft announced they're going to port Windoze to ARM. > No ETA commitment. > > A few microseconds later, a loud *plotz* was heard from one end of Intel's > management to the other, and the higher mucketies probably choked on their > skittles. > > So much for the facts. Now the guesswork, however founded it may be: > > Apple has little tolerance for companies that fail to make their > commitments. eg: It is believed the main reason for the switch to Intel x86 > is that IBM/Moto/Freescale fell behind their own delivery commitments, > unable to produce faster low-power (laptop) class processors etc. eg2: > Last year's MBA had the same'ole Core 2 Duo a second time around. hum. > > Apple's experience with the 68x->ppc and ppc->x86 transitions have given it > the tools necessary to make moving onto another platform soooo easy. IOW, > Apple is pretty much architecture independent. All that matters is > performance - speed and power. Of course, that makes Intel's recent "3d > transistor" announcement silly hype. The bottom line is what's fastest. > > iOS is based on a stripped down fork of Mac OS X. And quite a few > touch-screen type features are being moved from iOS into Lion (OS X 10.7). > ETA this summer. Now, why would Apple have any interest in maintaining > *two* operating systems? That's a lot of unnecessary work! And remember > that patent for the touch-screen iMac? Yea, baby! After Lion, or perhaps > during Lion's life cycle, there will be a complete merge of iOS' features > into OS X. > > So... The "state of the art by this summer" will be... 32-bit ARM at the > low end, and 64-bit Sandy Bridge x86 at the high end. Atom is a joke. Ivy > Bridge is coming. Faster ARM is coming. 64-bit ARM is coming! > > My bet: > > IF Intel gets its butt in gear and is on time delivering Ivy Bridge and its > follow-ons -- ie, faster low power x86 processors, then Apple will stick > with them. But if Intel blinks, and 64-bit ARM beats one of their that x86 > generation, Apple will move ARM into the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac > lines during the next release cycles. That's right... iPod, iPhone, iPad, > MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac will become the same product line, +/- a few > peripherals and a dock. > > As to the speculation of who fabricates what... pfffft. Doesn't matter. > ARM makes no chips! All that fabrication is out-sourced anyway, generation > by generation. As Atom fails, Intel will have more and more fabrication > capacity available. Bidding war. Yea, Intel will make ARM processors for > whoever pays. > > *yawn* > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
