Apple dumps Intel from laptop lines (Not Confirmed, Rumor)

[commodorejohn]

Well, feh, I'm none too fond of Apple, but I guess I can't look too harshly on anything that helps move computing away from its decades of x86 lock-in stagnation.

[commodorejohn]

Like the iPhone for example?

I dunno, that's more or less irrelevant to the personal-computer market. Phone hardware has always been a completely different animal (hell, a lot of 'em were 68k-based not so very long ago.)

And no, I'm not enamored of the iPhone either - even if I were the sort of person who wanted or needed a smartphone, software lock-in direct from the manufacturer is not something that impresses me.

I fail to see what is relevant in this news item to the "Amiga News and Community Anouncememnts" section.

Yeah, it seems like this is the favorite dumping ground for anything computer-related :/

[commodorejohn]

It would be nice to see OS X on the Arm however...  I like to use OS X as my main desktop OS but I am a .Net developer by trade so I always have 1 or 2 Windows VMs running on my MacBook.  I'd worry that switching to ARM will make running x86 VMs slow as we need to go back to emulating x86 like we had to do when OS X was PPC only.

If Microsoft's looking aat ARM support for Windows 8, you can bet they'll have an ARM-native .NET VM, given how much they've been pushing .NET in recent years. Besides, doesn't Mono already run on ARM?