“The breathlessly exciting, seemingly endless stream of announcements from the Consumer Electronics Show in January, detailing the latest in 3D TVs, me-too tablets and televisions that will run apps, may have caused you to miss the most significant development of all: the death of the Wintel PC,” Kenny Hemphill writes for MacUser.
“The irony for Mac users is that in a few years’ time Macs could still be using Intel processors, while PCs will be using chips designed by ARM, a company co-founded by Apple,” Hemphill writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t bet on that, Kenny. In a few years time, many Windows PCs will still be using Intel processors in a few years time.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
…”In a few years time, many Windows PCs will still be using Intel processors in a few years time.”
Was that a typo or a snarky comment that went above my head…?
I was thinking the exact same thing…
I’m right there with you.
Maybe MDN is trying to say that Intel will be making processors that are competitive to ARM’s current offerings?
lol! dunno
I think MDN is saying, based on M$’s track record, that it’ll be more than a few decades before they get the spaghetti monster known as Windows to work on ARM chips.
I think it’s MDN being their Snarky Self 😉
As far as I know the Death Knell for Apple has been going strong since 1995, and Apple’s still here. Besides it isn’t as if the PC industry is going to flip a switch and convert to a new chip overnight.
Intel isn’t going to struggle forever to build a decent mobile chipset. In fact, they could shave years off the task if they’d only reverse engineer Apple’s design.
In the meantime, PC makers will continue to build more powerfull desktops and so will Apple.
Hey G4Dualie, I read your Bio. Thank you for your Service to our country!
And here I was thinking that it’s just a matter of time until Apple brings all their CPU operations in-house and builds A4-like processors for everything they make. Why is it assumed that they would be left behind after making an incredible chip (almost no heat!) for their tablets and phones?
In a few years time we will be using OS X 10.8, and who knows what that will entail. If Bertrand Serlet has anything to do with it, I’m sure it will kick ass.
In a few years time, Mac OSX will still be able to move a lot faster to ARM chips than Windows.
(And BTW, OSX is already on ARM.)
OSX already runs on ARM.
From the Department of Redundancy Department
Am I wrong or can you post here now and use someone else’s “display” name? If true, you won’t know who the real Cubert or TowerTone, or C1 are and who are the imposters.
Maybe if you add a photo? Maybe that will help to keep your ID all your own? Not sure how all this works myself.
Notice, Cubert, that your name has a dot.
Thank you, correctu!
Hey that rhymes! I’m a poet and I didn’t even know it.
Yes, Cubert, that appears to be true
And thank you for your proof of concept, Bizzaro Cubert.
Any developer can tell you that iOS runs on both Intel and ARM – the iPhone/iPad emulator (virtual machine) is Intel based, not ARM.
Apple has invested a lot in LLVM, which allows for processor independent code generation. In the near future, it won’t matter what processors are used all Apple needs to do is add LLVM translators for whatever is being used.
Which will lead to applications that can run on a variety of different systems. Apple has also lead developers down the path of being able to morph their application interfaces to the device being used; iPhone or iPad, Lion full screen mode and regular windowed mode.
Imagine a single application with all three UIs; pocket UI (iPod/iPhone), full screen UI (iPad/Lion Full Screen mode), and desktop UI (Lion Window Mode).
The display name seems to do the same thing as before. If you’re registered, there’s that little ball next to your name.
I am (well, was) dd (the REAL one), since there were 2 of us. Now, I am TTT. 😀
Its actually that windows will still use intel and macs use ARM. As Steve Jobs wants the mac to be more like the ipad and iphone with faster startup, lower power processors, easy to use, will just means the laptops in a few years time will be running ARMS long before Windows PC ever does touch ARM processors.
One of the nice things for switchers is the ability to run Windows from a VM or Bootcamp for those legacy business apps that don’t have a Mac equivalent. How will this be done if Apple goes to an ARM chip?
No link?
I don’t know what’s more depressing. That they still haven’t fixed the link, or that you were the first to notice.
I mean, we do read the articles, don’t we?
——RM
Mac on ARM and Intel works for me. I have little doubt that it’s already running on ARM in some capacity, considering the secret life it had on x86 for so long,
I couldn’t log in earlier. This is to see if I can now. Sorry.
The ARM Cortex A15 can’t get here fast enough. TI’s OMAP5 is prepping samples using the ARM A15 cores, to ship by the end of the year. They are predicting phones using the chips to be ready by 2nd half of 2012.
The ARM A15 cores are supposed to run at 2Ghz, giving 3x the speed of the 1Ghz A9 core. At 1Ghz it’s supposed to be 50% faster than a 1Ghz A9.
It’s supposed to support up to 4 cameras, which means you could possibly shoot in 3d. Or I supposed you could create an HDR with one simultaneous exposure instead of several in sequence, the way the iPhone does it now. Or I suppose you could create an awesome bokeh by focusing the lenses differently. I don’t know, but it sounds interesting.
“In a few years time, many Windows PCs will still be” running Windows XP.
this is the real me, I think
Don’t tell that to the Microsoft sys admins that just finished finally migrating everything to MSFT servers.
It would take years before Windows could run remotely usably on an Arm processor. OSX or a combo of it and IOS will do so much earlier.
Just like many people are satisfied driving old beater cars, many people ate satisfied with Windows.