Oldfeller--FSO
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When Google gets done with the first pass later this year ..... as long as your busted up old piece of stuff will boot and load Chrome+ you can functionally do all the things a Chromebook can do, use all the web based stuff, talk to your XP machine (through a mic) and have it type the stuff you just dictated.
Going further out into the future, who knows -- universal web based computing, not really caring very much where you started from with the hardware part?
Google may eventually make the "which OS you use" issue sort of moot by the time they finish unifying all their various stuff with their web servers.
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When the changes stop 2-3 years from now, Apple and Microsoft will either have to have kept up pretty much with the flow, or else they won't be relevant for very much. It is going to move pretty fast.
Apple will keep up, or perhaps even do better than keep up.
Microsoft, not so much. People will start treating them like Count Chocula, not really taken seriously (but still a blood sucker).
Intel is a dead man walking hardware wise and they just don't know it. PC as a class is pretty dead right now and NONE of the new Bay Trails has any real edge over the new A57 generation of ARM chipsets for any light desktop or mobile uses. Can't get close on real cost, can't get really all that close on the efficiency or battery life. Can't even cheat on the benchmarks without getting caught any more. Intel will shrink and lay off and shrink again .....
The Intel zombie won't finally lay down and stop moving until the bank account goes empty or the board of directors gets fed up with the tremendous "prop it all up" negative spending and pulls the plug.
ARM with the A17 has shown they listen to their foundry partners and their chip maker partners -- A17 has 90% of the benefits of 64 bit chipsets while sticking with the current world of 32 bit programs and being backwards and forward mixable. Neat trick, that.
ARM will apparently design new classes of chips to match up year by year with what is available for a better, lower cost efficient foundry process flow -- still building in significant performance improvements over Intel as they go.
Intel still hasn't bit the bullet and rebuilt any of their existing foundry lines to do gates and circuit flow in the ARM fashion -- this is the next telling move they have to make to have a future past their current bank account's size.
Intel will have missed out on phones completely and totally by the end of 2015. Personal wearables will be the thing they are missing out on right now, but they aren't paying attention to wearables right now anyway.
Too busy throwing fistfuls of money away ....
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