Netbooks are still all the rage these days, but according to Intel, this is going to change soon. The company has stated that they first thought that netbooks, who are almost exclusively powered by Intel chips, would be for emerging markets, but as it turns out, they are especially popular in Europe and North America. Intel claims that while these devices are "fine for an hour", they are not something for day to day use. And AMD? They are ignoring the market altogether.
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Member since:2008-10-23
The Windows PC and mac OS X markets are dead ends.
It has nothing to do with the market, it's technical.
Don't worry, Microsoft, Apple and Intel will continue to make billions of dollars from their crap. That doesn't mean they will move us forward. You confuse what you call the market with progress.
Member since:2008-12-01
"It's technical?" What the hell does that mean? Yes, Microsoft and Apple will continue to make money, with or without you, mostly the latter. What's your point? Are you trying to tell the world that you're a lonely and unhappy person, or are you simply championing stupidty? In either case, mission accomplished.
Edited 2008-12-01 09:35 UTC
Member since:2005-08-11
so moving to 64bit isn't moving forward? Virtualization extensions? AMD fusion? The movement to lower power consumption? Multiple cores?
Come on, x86 has continued to gain new capabilities and markets since the original IBM PC. If you want to ignore the facts, feel free, but in the last 5 years x86 has gained massive new capabilities, and I don't see it stopping any time soon.
Wearing blinders doesn't change facts, it just removes them from view. If your pet processor architecture can't keep up, too bad.
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2005-08-11
Actually, dead end means that there is no progress pass the current location. as in the road comes to a dead end. I see no signs that x86 is at a dead end, impasse, whatever. x86 has effectively taken over the PC, workstation, server, HPC and Mac markets, and is moving into netbooks and smartphones. that's not a dead end, that's a total and utter domination of multiple markets.
How anybody can claim that x86 has hit a dead end is beyond me.