“I’ve talked a lot here before on how I think that, with the purchase of PA Semi, Apple has long term plans to ratchet up its ARM usage. One such usage, or transition, would be employing a hybrid ARM/Intel architecture for the Macintosh portable line,” Seth Weintraub writes for Computerworld. “Why would Apple do this?”
“Imagine being able to run an iPod touch OS for three days on your MacBook on one charge instead of running full Mac OSX Leopard,” Weintraub writes.
“It would [also] be preparing Apple’s low power machines to go to ARM processors from Intel,” Weintraub writes.
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