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Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs?

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-someone-do-it dept.

OceanMan7 writes "According to a story by Charlie Demerjian, a long-time hardware journalist, Intel's next generation of x86 CPUs, Broadwell, will not come in a package having pins. Hence manufacturers will have to solder it onto motherboards. That will likely seriously wound the enthusiast PC market. If Intel doesn't change their plans, the future pasture for enthusiasts looks like it will go to ARM chips or something from offshore manufacturers."

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  1. Re:Even if this was true... by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 0, Troll
    Oh and boy Windows activation wont like that either.

    People still use WIndow?

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  2. Re:Even if this was true... by Xenx · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sure, if you want to go with a completely new set of ARM apps. Doesn't matter if Linux, Windows RT, or whatever. You can't run x86 apps.

  3. Re:Even if this was true... by MouseTheLuckyDog · · Score: 1, Troll

    What you mean is, "you can't go closed source Intel apps".

    What you really mean is that you can't run Windows apps on these machines.

    So what is the problem with that?