> The end of the x86 architecture has been announced a couple of times now, even by intel itself. (keyword: IA-64) I'd be surprised to see non-x86 chips succeed

> The end of the x86 architecture has been announced a couple of times now, even by intel itself. (keyword: IA-64) I'd be surprised to see non-x86 chips succeed in the netbook arena. There's a MIPS netbook you can already buy, I don't even know of anyone who has one. Seeing an article about this now really surprises me, because for the longest time, Macs were the hold-outs against the x86 architecture on personal computers. The first ones used 68k chips, and the late PowerPC systems was introduced with much of the same design characteristics regarding low power consumption, small die size, and potential scalable architecture that MIPS and ARM processors are now attributed to having. It was just that PPC lost the R&D war to Intel... /-: