On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-11-17, james <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/17/18 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2018-11-17, james <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>>> On 2018-11-17, james <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> It's time for the old man to get a new portable. > >>>>> > >>>>> Arm processor, > >>>> > >>>> That's going to be tough. The only ones I've ever heard of are > >>>> Chromebooks. > >>> > >>> Dell is on the move, but what I found (looking for old link now) > >>> had a mechanical HD with no SSD upgrade option; everthing else was fine. > >>> > >>> https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/enabling-today-inspiring-tomorrow/ab/ena > >>> bling-today-inspiring-tomorrow > >>> > >>> > >>> https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-17-5000/spd/inspir > >>> on-17-5775-laptop/dncwlgamd7005h>> > >> Not an Arm processor. > >> > >> Or do you mean AMD? > > > > Actually and AMD Arm (64bit) Ryzen or newer. > > No, Ryzen is not an Arm processor. > > The Ryzen's architecture is AMD64 (AKA x64, or x86-64). It's the > old Intel IA32 architecture (which dates back to the 80386) extended to > be 64-bits wide. > > Read the section on "Instruction set": > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryzen > > If you want an Arm laptop, you pretty much have to by a Chromebook. > > AMD did have the "Opteron A" processor which included an Arm > Cortex-A57 core, but that was aimed at the blade-server market, and I > think it was discontinued...
Well, ... the PSP spy-in-the-die is an ARM core running within the main AMD x86 CPU and you can't switch it off, or remove it. However, I'm sure this is not the kind of ARM James' been looking for. -- Regards, Mick
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