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It would be funny if MS beat Apple to ARM laptops

• dragonbonheur 10y ago
  Apple already had the eMate 300. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 And Acorn (the company that invented ARM chips - Acorn Risc Machine) had the Acorn A4 http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22807/Acorn-A4-Laptop/ http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22807/Acorn-A4-Laptop... Edit: Microsoft was also already there with their Windows CE devices. And Psion and Vtech (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/30249/Vtech-I-T-Laptop/ http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/30249/Vtech-I-T-Lapto...) also used ARM Chips in laptop form factor devices So it's not really about someone beating someone else to market, just the evolution of the market itself.
  • fattire 10y ago
    And isn't the new touchbar thing on the macbook pros also running on ARM? http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/macbook-pro-2016s-touch-bar-said-to-be-controlled-by-a-secondary-arm-processor-1586858 http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/macbook-pro-2016s-touch... And speaking of windows 10 on arm... what's the deal with this Windows 10 IoT Core thing? from February and how does it relate to the qcom socs? https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/02/29/windows-10-iot-core-support-for-raspberry-pi-3/ https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/02/29/windows-10...
• askvictor 10y ago
  Chromebooks?