Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 874 from 2003/3/4
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vox wrote:
One day "This time next year" (Fools n Horses!) we gonna buy out AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS and fuse them to just AMIGA! Hardware, as imagined is less relevant.
Its first time Amiga chant of "Wintel is dead" is true, but just because of ARM devices progress and ... portability of taking tablet, smartphone or such small computer as Pi (if packed with old Sinclair style small but nice LCD and BT keyboard and mouse it could do magic)
YEs, it could be $100 machine for half of the world which lives in Africa, Asia and less developed parts of Latin America, or are poor in US, East Europe ...
With crisis its no longer high end but buy cheap use a lot world ...
So yes, x86/AMD64 isn`t a good way to go. Just go look at sales number of ARM devices and you will get it.
Linux is stable ARM and even Windows 10 - first time since NT4PPC is no longer just x64
Nonsense. Even the fastest ARM is left in the dust by a mid-range x64 processor such as an i5. ARM didn't scale up - the moment they started making it try to compete with actual notebook and desktop CPUs, it ended up using almost as much power and being much weaker. Not to mention that the fastest ARM is not actually that easy to get in a board - the original Raspberry Pi is about four times slower than a single core 1.6 MHz Atom from 2009.
I heard all that "x64 is dead, ARM is the future" back in 2013. Now it's 2016, and no sign of that. No sign of notebooks and desktops being replaced by tablets either.
[ Edited by KennyR 30.07.2016 - 22:41 ]
