I think the cross-platform compatibility between OSX and iOS indicates that abandoning x86 need not be as draconian as abandoning PPC.
"back in 2005, dropping PowerPC chips because of issues with power consumption and limited availability of high-performance processors."
It was the move to intel that got me to purchase a Mac. Moving away to a proprietary chip will likely mean that all the third-party software I depend on will be gone for months if not years. BAD IDEA. I really hope Mountain Lion is not my last Mac OS.
Maps turned out great. People need to stop bashing Maps and use it for themselves. The problems are few and localized and aesthetic and have since been fixed. And even when they existed, it didn't interfere with the functionality of Maps. It was just some 3D glitches in Flyover and some errors in the streets/roads database. Google Maps was also like this and still is today. But Maps as a whole is great. I use it every day and I have zero problems. I had one error where it would tell me to turn left when the road is one way (only turn right) but that has been fixed.
Lol businesses are turning to tablets? I work at one of the biggest companies in the world and i have yet to see a single company tablet.
Because programming such a machine would be a nightmare, and Amdahl's law rears its ugly head. Most consumer tasks (outside of graphics) have a limited amount of thread level parallelism, which is why CPU designs favor a handful of very complex cores instead of a vast array of simple cores. There's a reason Intel makes the choices it does. It's not stupid.
Because programming such a machine would be a nightmare, and Amdahl's law rears its ugly head. Most consumer tasks (outside of graphics) have a limited amount of thread level parallelism, which is why CPU designs favor a handful of very complex cores instead of a vast array of simple cores. There's a reason Intel makes the choices it does. It's not stupid.
Lol businesses are turning to tablets? I work at one of the biggest companies in the world and i have yet to see a single company tablet.
Because programming such a machine would be a nightmare, and Amdahl's law rears its ugly head. Most consumer tasks (outside of graphics) have a limited amount of thread level parallelism, which is why CPU designs favor a handful of very complex cores instead of a vast array of simple cores. There's a reason Intel makes the choices it does. It's not stupid.
Because programming such a machine would be a nightmare, and Amdahl's law rears its ugly head. Most consumer tasks (outside of graphics) have a limited amount of thread level parallelism, which is why CPU designs favor a handful of very complex cores instead of a vast array of simple cores. There's a reason Intel makes the choices it does. It's not stupid.
yes, and they're failing massively. RT is a piece of crap that won't run any decent software. I'm sure Apple thinks that's a great idea now.
Because programming such a machine would be a nightmare, and Amdahl's law rears its ugly head. Most consumer tasks (outside of graphics) have a limited amount of thread level parallelism, which is why CPU designs favor a handful of very complex cores instead of a vast array of simple cores. There's a reason Intel makes the choices it does. It's not stupid.
yes, and they're failing massively. RT is a piece of crap that won't run any decent software. I'm sure Apple thinks that's a great idea now.
Jump ship to where? It's conceivable that all or most PCs will become ARM-based in the next decade. This is the tech battle of a generation coming up (intel vs. Arm). Intel is reaching down, ARM is reaching up, becoming more and more powerful.
I work at Intercourse Blue Machine ( HINT HINT ), and I have yet to see a single tablet either, Ive seen some full blown tablet PCs and convertibles over the years, but not one iPad, or any other tablet, we are thinking about the surface pro, and we've had our share of fruit phones ( berrys and Apples, but mostly dumb phones and berrys ), but no tablets really. They're to limited.
Jump ship to where? It's conceivable that all or most PCs will become ARM-based in the next decade. This is the tech battle of a generation coming up (intel vs. Arm). Intel is reaching down, ARM is reaching up, becoming more and more powerful.
Jump ship to where? It's conceivable that all or most PCs will become ARM-based in the next decade. This is the tech battle of a generation coming up (intel vs. Arm). Intel is reaching down, ARM is reaching up, becoming more and more powerful.
Because programming such a machine would be a nightmare, and Amdahl's law rears its ugly head. Most consumer tasks (outside of graphics) have a limited amount of thread level parallelism, which is why CPU designs favor a handful of very complex cores instead of a vast array of simple cores. There's a reason Intel makes the choices it does. It's not stupid.
I work at Intercourse Blue Machine ( HINT HINT ), and I have yet to see a single tablet either, Ive seen some full blown tablet PCs and convertibles over the years, but not one iPad, or any other tablet, we are thinking about the surface pro, and we've had our share of fruit phones ( berrys and Apples, but mostly dumb phones and berrys ), but no tablets really. They're to limited.
I work at Intercourse Blue Machine ( HINT HINT ), and I have yet to see a single tablet either, Ive seen some full blown tablet PCs and convertibles over the years, but not one iPad, or any other tablet, we are thinking about the surface pro, and we've had our share of fruit phones ( berrys and Apples, but mostly dumb phones and berrys ), but no tablets really. They're to limited.
Because programming such a machine would be a nightmare, and Amdahl's law rears its ugly head. Most consumer tasks (outside of graphics) have a limited amount of thread level parallelism, which is why CPU designs favor a handful of very complex cores instead of a vast array of simple cores. There's a reason Intel makes the choices it does. It's not stupid.