On 2018-11-17, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 11/17/18 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2018-11-17, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's time for the old man to get a new portable. >>>> >>>>> Arm processor, >>>> >>>> That's going to be tough. The only ones I've ever heard of are >>>> Chromebooks. >>> >>> Dell is on the move, but what I found (looking for old link now) >>> had a mechanical HD with no SSD upgrade option; everthing else was fine. >>> >>> https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/enabling-today-inspiring-tomorrow/ab/enabling-today-inspiring-tomorrow >> >>> >>> https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-17-5000/spd/inspiron-17-5775-laptop/dncwlgamd7005h >> >> Not an Arm processor. >> >> Or do you mean AMD? > > Actually and AMD Arm (64bit) Ryzen or newer.
No, Ryzen is not an Arm processor. The Ryzen's architecture is AMD64 (AKA x64, or x86-64). It's the old Intel IA32 architecture (which dates back to the 80386) extended to be 64-bits wide. Read the section on "Instruction set": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryzen If you want an Arm laptop, you pretty much have to by a Chromebook. AMD did have the "Opteron A" processor which included an Arm Cortex-A57 core, but that was aimed at the blade-server market, and I think it was discontinued... -- Grant
