Apple's call to ARM

Jeez, don't tell me they're going to introduce yet another architecture for OSX application developers to compile to, just when everyone had finished moving to Universal Binary versions. Why not just specify that everything should be written in Java :(

pony= who cares about netbooks and tablets? Quit f'ing around and update the ACD line with something serious and professional we can use.

Neither, please. A tablet is pointless for most users and netbooks are a lame fad.

Wow, iPhone OSX in a Mac Tablet!. Here we go!. Please please support the wireless keyboard and do 802.11n so we can do full max wifi @ 130Mbps!. Woohoo, another toy for Jan 05... what a year 09 will be.

Let hope it will make a great iPhone/iTouch companion which the windows people failed to make (Folio anyone ?) And a really bright LCD that is at least twice the size of iPhone. And with decent battery life. Woot!.

What Apple can't afford to do is listen to the 8 nerds out there who somehow believe themselves to be "consumers clamor" or whatever.

That market doesn't exist.

haven't you heard netbooks are so yesterday, iPhone and other smartphones will beat them up in 2009, why because you can put them in your pocket.

my oblivious guess is that if Apple were to incorporate ANOTHER processor type, one that doesnt overlap functionality, it would have to be for an entirely alternate OS, or not for an OS at all. What use would it be to rebuild OS X when Snow leopard is on the way and the Macintosh is maturing so well. this sounds like to me like the guts to future products, whatever they may be.

we know new versions of the iPhone are bound to come out, and more players, possibly game systems, who knows. So, abandoning the the current iPhone OS for future phones or whatever, while leaving the now iPhone and Mac OS's intact seems the most logical next step. maybe we will start seeing more in depth OS's in different gadgets, or personally i'm crossing my fingers for some sort of gaming masterpiece i know the good folks at Apple are capable of.

Let's face it, the days where a phone or MP3 player had a simple on/off play/pause concept behind the screen are over. Holographics are becoming less and less a thing of the future and more a thing in progress. there's no telling what the future holds for an innovative as a company as Apple is. im betting we will start to see products with processors solely devoted to user input. we started with CPUs, and then GPUs, as touch interfaces and 3d mapping are integrated why wouldn't there eventually be the need for a UserPU or InputPU or whatever. Maybe ARM will not be used in place of, but in conjunction with Intel.

this ended up being a much longer post than i was anticipating...

in kernel debug tools for 10a190, there is was arm kernel too .

I would hate to see it cripple the rise in developers we have seen since the Intel chips came in. Otherwise it seems slick for a mobile device.

ARM will be used for new chips for iPhone and iPod models. Hell will freeze over before we see a netbook or tablet. Margins on netbooks are too small, while tablets are a niche market.