Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
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What benefits does it provide over x86?
Extremely attractive price/bang for the buck ratio, extremely energy efficient, tiny footprints, completely noiseless, yet perfectly capable of doing what 99% of consumers spends 99% of their computing time to doing; watching HD movies, youtube, listening to music, facebooking, twittering, (video)chatting, e-mailing, playing (simpler) games, office productivity, etc.
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is there desktop ARM hardware available out there? Is this hardware compatible with established standards for hardware? Is ARM hardware cheaply available?
Yes there are, from more than one supplier, both motherboard or "desktop" systems, as well as portable netbooks. However, this is not even close to be comparable to the x86 market. Besides, most ARM devices are locked, proprietary ones with very limited options of running third party SW. The upcoming Windows 8 ARM devices will be locked, for example.
MorphOS is Amiga
done right! 
MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right!
