(Isn't *real* competition a wonderful thing! It's pretty preposterous that with all the economies of technology and scale that a current laptop still costs $600-$1500 and much more when software is considered.)
-- Bobby G.
Feh, real competition would've been Digital actually marketing and supportig the StrongARM. Instead they tanked, Intel bought it and pretty much treated it like a red-headed-stepchild. Now they're trying to foist x86 crap on the mobile market? No thanks.
Even though the subject was the "Atom" the real focus was on the war between Intel's efforts at laptops for schoolchildren and the One Laptop per Child organization's much cheaper (and apparently more capable) machines. At least Intel is finally off the "every new CPU chip generation has to run faster, hotter and consume considerably more power than the last one" pathway. The new chips only draw 3 watts, but in a few years, that will seem as ridiculous as giant Zalman-type copper fin coolers. The x86 world is alive and well, or so thought Apple when it finally crossed over, so I wouldn't write it off just yet. Lots and lots of software tools, tested, tried and true. That tends to keep the old stuff in play for quite a while.
-- Bobby G.
Are claimed to draw that, but it's unclear at what level of 'performance' is indicated. More marketing lies from Intel.
Not in the mobile and device markets. Do some reading, ARM leads that sector by a CONSIDERABLE margin. With quite a lot of tools and software supporting it.
Portable, yet still crap is worthless.
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