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The price is tempting. But I don't like the mindset of bigger ipod touch (app store and the closed OS).

• tfh 17y ago
  The first thing that comes in mind is, if it's capable of running OS X. (or any other regular OS)
  • stonemetal 17y ago
    from other news reports it appears the A4 is just an Arm processor.
    • spudlyo 17y ago
      It would kinda have to be to run random pre-existing iPhone apps.
      • boucher 17y ago
        It could have an ARM emulator, but I doubt that's the case.
  • necubi 17y ago
    No, because the chip is ARM and therefore can only run operating systems that have been ported to ARM (this does, however, include various linux distributions).
  • ecq 17y ago
    i'd love to see a vmware/parallels app for the iPad. imagine being able to run os x/windows/linux on this thing.
    • rabidsnail 17y ago
      It'd have to do machine-code translation, and so would be slow as hell. Try running windows in qemu some time to see what I mean.
      • jsolson 17y ago
        To be fair, qemu is appallingly slow. Windows in Microsoft's Virtual PC for Mac (on Power PC macs) was several orders of magnitude moe performant. Machine-code translation can be done well, but that still doesn't mean trying to pack a desktop OS onto a mobile platform is going to be a good idea.