Go ARM, GO! at Robert Pogson

ARM processors on netbooks will be hot this year and next. We can fight the Wintel monopoly/treadmill by seeking and buying ARM-based products.

ARM is a RISC processor which avoids the need for microcode and parallel processing over many clock ticks to get things done with less energy expenditure. This is a huge advantage with battery-operated netbooks. Wintel can innovate to compete on this performance measure but they cannot compete on prices and keep the cash-cow flowing. ARM processors have many times fewer transistors per chip making smaller chips, sockets and motherboards feasible.

The conspiracy between ASUS and M$ makes support for ARM more critical. ARM could take back this market which could be lost through marketing ploys and taking away consumer choice. By the time the courts rule on any anti-competitive acts involved, the market will be permanently damaged. Intel has nothing that can take the place of ARM and M$ does not run XP/Vista or 7 on ARM processors.

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Companies to show 5 or 6 ARM netbooks at show

UPDATE

Believe it or not, after ASUS has commenced claiming things are better with that other OS, THEY ARE PRODUCING AN eeePC WITH ARM!!!???

Talk about mixed messages. ASUS are becoming like DELL, hedging so many bets no one knows where they are headed. Either I am confused or ASUS is. I have always believed that clarity in communication was important for business. Have they laid off the clear communicators?

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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.