Besides, much of the push to ARM in apple laptop products will probably not be from apple, but probably be from Microsoft. Microsoft is probably going to be the guinea pig to see how successful ARM cpus are in Windows 8 and it is probably be more likely that Microsoft pushing enhancements to the ARM architecture to rival Intel cpus. Whether Microsoft can do it, we shall find out.

The analyst said that Apple will use ARM products in about 3 years, and given the leaps and bounds that ARM cpus have evolutionized, it is possible. But I recall that in about 15 years ago when windows NT was created for 4 different kinds of cpus but Intel cpus won out. Intel is the 800 lb gorilla and they would not give up the battle so easily to ARM.

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I’m not the only one posting about the ARM Powered Macbooks http://www.techmeme.com/110506/p13#a110506p13

There’s nothing wrong with rumor, opinion, or speculation, but there is something wrong stating it as fact.

Apple does scale so their R&D and software development costs are a one-time expense, no matter the amount of devices they sell. And if they want to save money on software, they can simply use Android, it’s free and open source after all, why design the wheel twice.

Smaller ARM Powered laptop experiments thus far have had to take the processors that have been designed for phones and experiment putting them in a laptop.

But things are moving really fast and I actually expect Google will be first with ARM Powered Chrome OS to be unveiled in less than 4 days I expect, at the Google I/O conference.

I don’t mind speculation, but this article is written with very direct assertions as though to be fact. Things like
“Apple to (obviously) use ARM in next macbook”
“Arm is the best way to make huge profits”
“This is Apple’s laptop ARM powered laptop plan”
are definite claims that are frankly made up. I had to read sufficiently far before realizing this, which turned out to be a waste of time. Had I known it was speculation and was in the mood, I may have enjoyed the article, but I hate distrusting a source, and this article greatly hurts the credibility of this site.

Charbax has great coverage of ARM related products (especially those lesser known), but I would hate to have to second guess these articles and source them myself just to be able to trust the content.

Sure you must be allowed to speak out your mind, no problems there, but the overall layout and language of the article is as if these were facts, which they arent.

On the topic, even if Apple would go with an ARM based CPU, it would not come for free either. A lot of software and hardware would have to be adapted. If they would go and do the development of the core chip them self, that is not free either, to buy one, well that’s almost the same as buying from Intel. If company X would offer a very good price, well, then Intel as the biggest semiconductor company in the world could top that offer.

When it comes to software there might also be more that just the OS related parts that can be a problem. Apple is big in the “designer” typ of computing and very sofisticated programs for sound/video/graphics editing/modulation/creation might not work on ARM without a lot of reconstruction.

Full disclosure: I don’t really like Apple as a company based on there etics or so to speak. So I don’t really care if they would use ARM or not. I just thought this artical should have been written in a different way so that it could not be taken for real facts.

It is to say that it might be possible in the future. Perhaps when ARM cpus can beat Intel cpu architecture in terms of raw speed. Meanwhile, I think that Apple could probably create some kind of cheap netbook type of device based on the IOS, not on the mac os.

I’m *this* close to removing this site from my list of RSS feeds.