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>>Windows will run very well, no doubt. Unsubstantiated claim. On one hand I'm not convinced that ARM chips outperform Intel. On the other hand we could easily

>>Windows will run very well, no doubt. Unsubstantiated claim. On one hand I'm not convinced that ARM chips outperform Intel. On the other hand we could easily see many apps going through an x86 emulator, which incurs a performance hit against native. At the end of the day you get a performance hit, without a reason that can easily be explained to a user. Intel tablets can be procured cheaply, and most people would pay an extra $10 for something that runs twice as fast.

slantyyz 9y ago
>> On one hand I'm not convinced that ARM chips outperform Intel. What does "Intel" even mean? Intel offers such a wide array of chips, from bad to great. If we're talking about the low end of laptops on sale today, then we're probably talking about the Atom Z, Celeron/Pentium N, and maybe CoreM. And those chips are "meh" at best, and are a pretty low performance bar to meet. >> At the end of the day you get a performance hit, without a reason that can easily be explained to a user. Why does it need to be explained to a user? Is the average user even going to understand or care that there's a performance hit? They're just going to know that their computer is slow or fast. And that performance expectation is usually mapped to the price of the machine they bought.