Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
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ARM can't compete with x86 on desktop.
True but ARM doesn't try to compete on the desktop - at the moment.
They're moving up very rapidly though.
Currently, the highest end stuff is based on phone chips but that's changing as tablet chips become available. It'll get really interesting when server chips appear.
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IMHO choosing ARM would be a suicide. It doesn't fix any problem, it doesn't bring any advantage to customers
Since when has cheap, available, new hardware been a disadvantage?
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it's yet another hard to find hardware platform.
Actually, at 6 billion a year they're pretty hard to avoid.
They're not exactly well represented in the desktop space (in the west) but there are
some and there's more due at the end of the year.
If you just want a cheap ($149 - $199) dev board there's a few here:
http://www.linaro.org/low-cost-development-boards
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you can buy x86 machines everywhere, there's enough variety.
Can't argue with that.
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I'm not interested in vapour cpus with inflated benchmarks.
Good. Neither am I.
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ARMs performance sucks. 1Ghz ARM cpus are slower than all PPC equivalents.
You base this on what exactly?
Quote:There's no ARM machine that can compete with a QuadG5 machine in price/performance right now.
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Correct, but that's only because there's no ARM at that performance level today. That'll change next year. The year after, the opposite will be true.
If we switched to other architecture it should be x86 (it's cheap, it has a wide variety of models from low consumption to high performance, it's easy to find, it won't dissapear)
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