Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:30:08 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: TUXTYYqX1yG7hs3zxUg7ng.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4723 On 5/30/2011 12:11 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > >> On 5/29/2011 10:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> The issue is power consumption. Intel has been unable to drive down the >>> power usage of x86 chips to offer serious competition to ARM. >> >> Do you think the new intel 3D chips would do that? > > Not a chance. They’ve already tacitly given up on phones for now, but are > still making a big noise about tablets. Though I’ve yet to hear of any > significant design wins. > > The only advantage to having x86 on a tablet is the ability to run Windows. > And nobody seems to care about that. Thanks. But windows still run on, what, may be 9% of the PC's in the world? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows "As of October 2009, Windows had approximately 91% of the market share of the client operating systems for usage on the Internet.[3][4][5] " So, I do not think not caring about 90% of the market is a wise thing to do? ps. I myself use Linux and windows on the same computer, thanks to VirtualPC. I have them both running, and use them both, as each is good at different things. --Nasser