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scarp · 4653 days ago · link · · parent · post: Stephan Gordon: In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
The thing that worries me about ARM processors is that I think they may be underpowered for use in laptops. They work fine for phones and tablets because those devices run very lite mobile operating systems and don't do a lot of heavy lifting. My only experience with ARM in laptops is playing around with netbooks running Windows 7 that seem really slow and clunky.
Also, I don't know much about software engineering, but don't new processor architectures require new programs designed especially for them? I'm reminded of Apple's change from PowerPC to Intel and all of the backwards/forwards compatibility headaches that that caused. Now Microsoft is saying that Windows 8 ARM devices won't run x86 apps.