Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Aug 2009 21:40 UTC
G. Pascal Zachary has written a very interesting article about the importance of Google's Chrome OS announcement, and what the move to the cloud (internet!) could mean for Microsoft and the operating system in general. I do think he missed an important part of the possible consequences of the move towards the cloud: the hardware.
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Maybe I would buy one, but I really like the ARM architecture, but for an "average consumer" this motivation doesn't hold.
I'd say it's exactly the average consumer where this can hold. I mean developers are more knowledgeable in what processing power and architecture they need, and in many cases ARM doesn't cut it, while for average netbook use it would do nicely. I'd say the netbook arena could be the first place where cpu choice shouldn't matter, because of the generally low requirements.
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2005-07-06
I have been making the point that Linux will weaken the x86 position years ago. It's not happening, x86 only got stronger and currently no other architecture has processors that are competitive to x86. There currently is no business case for buying a laptop, desktop or server with anything else.
Yes, netbooks, but even there the case for buying ARM rather than x86 is dubious. Maybe I would buy one, but I really like the ARM architecture, but for an "average consumer" this motivation doesn't hold.