Apple chose the ARM in the first place (Newton) because it was the clear win in MIPS/mW, which meant the best possible battery life. That is still an operative factor. Phones live and die on battery life, are there now any non-ARM phones?
MS has run Windows on non-Intel processors before, it's entirely possible that there may be an ARM-based Windows product line in the future, if battery life is sufficiently improved by doing so. (Not saying it would be.) Apple has a sufficient market share that other parts of the market might react to this move. Even Microsoft, though that seems somewhat doubtful. My Wintel needs were _never_ driven by performance. Just connectivity. So what if Word runs kinda crappy on my Mac. I don't live there, i do my work in native world, and mostly only do conversions (and cross-compilation) in Wintel space. I wouldn't care if an ARMac ran it slower than the current stuff does. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
