Article: Why Apple Won’t ARM the MacBook
By: Nicolas (rfgsdfg.delete@this.hotmail.com), May 11, 2011 1:34 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
anonymous42 (no@thanks.com) on 5/10/11 wrote:
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>Nicolas (qergteqf@hotmail.com) on 5/10/11 wrote:
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>>ARM is still underpowered to fit the need of netbooks.
>I bet you didn't even used ARM netbooks.
>Toshiba AC100 equipped with linux works smoothly. And I can't say the same about
>sloppy atom netbooks. Ac100 is thin, light and don't use active cooling. Bad point
>is what linux on it is rather half-baked and officially unsupported.
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atom was compared to Cortex A8. Tegra 2 use 2 Cortex A9, to be comparred with last atom dual core. I have an atom netbook and it's sometimes slow (flash....).
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>Nicolas (qergteqf@hotmail.com) on 5/10/11 wrote:
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>>ARM is still underpowered to fit the need of netbooks.
>I bet you didn't even used ARM netbooks.
>Toshiba AC100 equipped with linux works smoothly. And I can't say the same about
>sloppy atom netbooks. Ac100 is thin, light and don't use active cooling. Bad point
>is what linux on it is rather half-baked and officially unsupported.
>
atom was compared to Cortex A8. Tegra 2 use 2 Cortex A9, to be comparred with last atom dual core. I have an atom netbook and it's sometimes slow (flash....).