You do realize that the ARM processors are based on the old Motorola 68000 series of processors
Do you realise that you are talking out of your arse, and that ARM was developed as a totally independent architecture from scratch - the Acorn Risc Machine? And that the old 68k is in no way RISC?
My laptop has 8gb of ram today. If ARM can increase outright performance a bit (perhaps through using many many cores and the use of threading on processing intensive apps) then I'd be keen on ARM for the power savings.
You mean every iPhone is the same? Of course, they're all made by apple. HTC or Samsung want to be able to differentiate their phones from the other android phones out there.
More like, not wanting to pay people for the work they do to make things easy to use. Anything apple or microsoft does, someone in the open source world will attempt to clone it. Usually it ends up being a half-assed look-alike that duplicates one of the functionality but misses the point entirely when it comes to internal software architecture and ease of use/ease of maintenance. I'm looking at you, gnome.
When have geeks been bitten and how? And how have they been bitten any more than the bullshit going on with google withholding android source? At least apple are up front about their stuff begin closed, but making use of software both from and contributed to open source.
Google touts android as an open alternative, when the track record is pretty sketchy as of late, yet in slashdot groupthink, google can do no wrong.
So why did apple release the source to darwin? Why are the pushing funding for clang? Why are they releasing sources and specs for bonjour, launchd, lib dispatch, etc?
So Apple's version is technically inferior in order to be compatible with the sterilized Apple ecosystem? Hey, it's like every other Apple product!
Or, you know, maybe it is less cpu intensive to give significantly more play time. "Technically inferior" without a comprehensive set of metrics to measure by is a load of wank.
... android is open source though, port it yourself? this is why google is good and apple/IOS is bad - because with apple you're at the mercy of them making your handset obsolete.
Everyone else's shit does not "just work". Dell for example have had abysmal track pads since at least 1999. They activate while typing, result in accidental click-drag, etc.
I'm sure there must be PC hardware out there that just works, however. But my point remains - apple spend a lot of money on getting the "subjective" stuff "right" (for some people's definition of "right").
If you don't like it, don't buy it - however the fact that they are increasing market share and growing much faster than the rest of the pc market would indicate that they are building products that a lot of people want.
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All 68k CPUs are 32 bit internally, not 16 bit. The 68000 ran a 16 bit bus, but as far as instruction set goes, 68k has been 32 bit since day one.
Do you realise that you are talking out of your arse, and that ARM was developed as a totally independent architecture from scratch - the Acorn Risc Machine? And that the old 68k is in no way RISC?
You talking about the same AMD that hasn't released a CPU worth shit in about 4 years now?
the right magic being paging, or segmenting of memory, which is a more commonly used (recent) term.
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My laptop has 8gb of ram today. If ARM can increase outright performance a bit (perhaps through using many many cores and the use of threading on processing intensive apps) then I'd be keen on ARM for the power savings.
If you count laptops in that, then sure.
My laptop has 8 gig. The ice cream sandwich source code is not yet out, and neither is honeycomb.
You mean every iPhone is the same? Of course, they're all made by apple. HTC or Samsung want to be able to differentiate their phones from the other android phones out there.
You mean like darwin, clang/llvm funding, webkit, core foundation, lib dispatch, bonjour, etc, etc.
So in terms of social development, you're 23, but much older in terms of physical body. cheers for the heads up.
More like, not wanting to pay people for the work they do to make things easy to use. Anything apple or microsoft does, someone in the open source world will attempt to clone it. Usually it ends up being a half-assed look-alike that duplicates one of the functionality but misses the point entirely when it comes to internal software architecture and ease of use/ease of maintenance. I'm looking at you, gnome.
When have geeks been bitten and how? And how have they been bitten any more than the bullshit going on with google withholding android source? At least apple are up front about their stuff begin closed, but making use of software both from and contributed to open source.
Google touts android as an open alternative, when the track record is pretty sketchy as of late, yet in slashdot groupthink, google can do no wrong.
has been for a long time
So why did apple release the source to darwin? Why are the pushing funding for clang? Why are they releasing sources and specs for bonjour, launchd, lib dispatch, etc?
Yet apple has kept darwin open-source, anyway.
Sorry you appear to have apple confused with Linux.
Or, you know, maybe it is less cpu intensive to give significantly more play time. "Technically inferior" without a comprehensive set of metrics to measure by is a load of wank.
IOS5 is faster than IOS4 on same hardware. Probably due to being compiled with CLANG which is better optimised for objective c, as i understand it.
the phone manufacturers will never go for that idea.
news flash: the first gen iPhone is significantly older than ANY android handset.
Sure, all you need is 16 gigs of ram in your workstation, a few hours of time, and access to source that doesn't currently exist and you're good.
As opposed to buying new hardware every time a new Android release comes out, and putting up with shitty feeling handsets to boot?
... android is open source though, port it yourself? this is why google is good and apple/IOS is bad - because with apple you're at the mercy of them making your handset obsolete.
Everyone else's shit does not "just work". Dell for example have had abysmal track pads since at least 1999. They activate while typing, result in accidental click-drag, etc.
I'm sure there must be PC hardware out there that just works, however. But my point remains - apple spend a lot of money on getting the "subjective" stuff "right" (for some people's definition of "right").
If you don't like it, don't buy it - however the fact that they are increasing market share and growing much faster than the rest of the pc market would indicate that they are building products that a lot of people want.