Call me crazy, but I think ARM is the future of computing. ARM is a much more sensible ISA than x86 or even PPC, and we keep seeing more and more powerful ARM chips come out every year. Meanwhile, everyone is porting everything they can to it.
Picture ten years down the road: 2GHz ARM chips with large amounts of instruction-level parallelism, out-of-order execution, etc. It would be a formidable chip and probably blow x86 out of the water clock for clock (and more importantly, performance/price). -- Jarett T. DeAngelis, MS Sr. IT Support Engineer Distributed Support Services, College of Arts and Letters Office of Information Technology 938 Flanner Hall University of Notre Dame On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 10:04 AM -0700 9/8/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: >>> Personally, I'm waiting for the future Apple processors that will >>> replace the Intel chips. Since Apple bought a chip maker about 18 >>> months ago, I'm hoping they are getting close to releasing them >>> soon. >> >> Don't hold your breath...Apple bought that company for their >> expertise in making small devices: the chips from them are geared >> towards future iPhone models, not future Macs. > > Perhaps. Depends on the design direction they take. > >> Why on EARTH do you think Apple would switch their architecture >> *again*? Intel is working out quite well for them. > > Some of us have high hopes for Apple. And it bugs the heck out of us > to see Apple with a ball and chain around its neck. They've > obviously done a lot of work with OS X to get it to function on > multiple platforms - ppc, intel-x86, arm. We want to see what the > future holds - when Apple gets around to taking performance > seriously. I'd give my left leg to have a Power7 rack running OS X, > eg. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
