Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:51:15PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but I very much like ARM's low power consumption. An update to my earlier response. A slasdot article at

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? no two reasons: not enough power does not run x86 software the second one is a real deal breaker. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:51:15PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but I very much like ARM's low power consumption. There's an article on Slashdot about Intel's relatively new 22 nm SOC (System On Chip) design...

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 19:25:55 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and laptops, x86 was

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.12.2012 04:51, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but I very much like

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:24:58 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net: Am 09.12.2012 04:51, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing else, so x86 is going to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing else, so x86 is going to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:23:28 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 13:44:09 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: But this is an old, old, old argument. People predicted the demise of mainframes for years when x86 started becoming a quite powerful of cpu. The current truth is that IBM sell more mainframes year of on year, growth is

[gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-08 Thread Grant
It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but I very much like ARM's low power consumption. The way I see

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-08 Thread microcai
2012/12/9 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? No, it won't. - Grant