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2010-10-28 , 14:44
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Originally Posted by Matan View Post
You are joking, right?

Do you know that intel has a 6 core 3.33 GHz CPU? And that each of these cores can do twice as much as an A9 core does per cycle, making the i7 about 20 times as fast as a dual core Cortex-A9. This is the usual ratio between top of the line x86 and ARM for the last 15 years.
I don't think anyone was implying that ARM is faster then X86, but for day to day computing it would be unthinkable even 2 years ago that you could rely solely on an ARM based PC. Even if you used an ARM device, you would only last a few hours before running back to your PC to hotsync or view web video or do any signifigant PC gaming.

But now, I see Maemo/Meego, the iOS iPad, and (soon) the QNX powered Blackberry Tablet, and several other cosumer electronics devices providing for many people's daily email, web browsing, and personnel computing needs.

Many of these people (myself included) can go for weeks now without powering on my full desktop PC.