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How plausible is it to stick an ARM chip and a (lower-end) Intel CPU on the same board and make them work together? The transition to an ArmBook would be much s
by andr 10y ago
How plausible is it to stick an ARM chip and a (lower-end) Intel CPU on the same board and make them work together? The transition to an ArmBook would be much smoother and I'm betting it won't affect cost of the laptop that much. After all, an Apple TV, which is essentially an iPhone 6 board without the battery and screen, costs just $149.
- api 10y agoThat actually was done toward the tail end of the 1980s PC wars. The Commodore Amiga and several other machines could sport x86 add on boards that would let them run DOS apps natively. It would not be good for a laptop though, and that is almost all of Mac sales. Too much space and power consumption.
- wallacoloo 10y agoPretty much every iteration of the Gameboy does this (at least up through the Nintendo DS) in order to achieve backward compatibility, so it has at least some plausibility.