Let's talk Apple for a second. Yes, lots of people are pissed about Microsoft right now and they are looking hard at alternatives to HAVING to go buy a Win 10 machine. The time is ripe for a change since
nobody likes having an antenna shoved up their butt all the time.
Apple has now started to move their ARM for laptops project forward, intending to capitalize on Microsoft's antenna distress issues.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2983385/ipad/the-ipad-pro-is-a-pilot-fish-for...The iPad Pro is a pilot fish for Apple's ARM LaptopThe latest iPad is a distinctly different creature than its predecessors, and Apple openly compared it to a laptop in specs. But is it a sign of even greater convergence? 
ARMed and ready"Ever since Apple began designing its A-series chips, we’ve heard rumors that the company is working on a laptop powered by an ARM chip. Certainly, Apple tests all kinds of ideas in locked-down labs. The iPad was built years before it finally shipped, and the iPhone actually came out of its development, not the other way around. Similarly, Apple had a group building OS X on Intel chips long before the PowerPC processor line was dropped.
And thus we can be sure that OS X is running on prototype ARM-based hardware somewhere at One or Two Infinite Loop. While Intel ticks away at producing faster and more efficient processors, Apple focuses on controlling its own destiny. It’s been this way since the return of Steve Jobs, and slowly reducing the need for Intel processors would be a reasonable path.
Please note that in last week’s keynote, Phil Schiller discussed iPad performance in a way Apple has previously avoided. The new tablet has a 64-bit chip that offers “desktop-class performance.” The iPad Pro’s CPU is 22 times faster than the original iPad’s chip, and twice as fast as the iPad Air 2’s processor. The new tablet also has twice as much memory—we know it’s 4GB thanks to an accidental disclosure by Adobe. Graphics performance is also 360 times faster than the original iPad.
Apple even noted the Pro has better performance than 80 percent of the laptops on the market right now.
Why praise the Pro in this context if it isn’t a test to see whether the market is waiting for something that combines attributes of a laptop and a tablet without the drawbacks of either?"An iPad Pro that has the screen size of a laptop, one that uses touch, trackpad, mouse, keyboard and pen/screen input, that instantly separates the keyboard for tablet use, is lighter than an iPad Air and has a stronger processor than 80% of the laptops currently on the market?
Uh, what is not to like about that?
The price, most likely -- the first Apple of a new generation or kind generally is a pretty pricey/snobby item, but we shall see what the two subsequent models next year do for some better pricing.
The key thing is that the ARM laptop is now out there, coming both from Google and from Apple. This gives Google and Apple a price advantage that Microsoft doesn't have just yet, since an Intel chipped anything costs roughly a third to half more than the equivalent ARM chipped item does.
But I also betcha Microsoft rolls out an ARM based PC before Q1 of next year (Qualcomm supposedly). This may be the new phonePC format, if Microsoft should be so bold as to take the move that will kill off the PC completely.
Which brings up a point --
IF Microsoft already plans to make the PC obsolete, it explains why they don't care if they damage their image in the PC realm -- they will already own all of them through the Borging process and be able to use all "associated PC resources" freely to back whatever else they plan to do in the future.
In short, PC would just be a disposable resource, to be Borged and used while it is still available.
As Macbook Pros have been notoriously expensive things all along, perhaps these new equally large screen ARM processored iPad Pros offer Apple a venue to undercut Microsoft's Ultrabook pricing by offering a less expensive NON-antenna shoving product that uses ALL FORMS OF INPUT gracefully and that works 100% right, right now to be Christmas competition for this year.
I'm looking at it as my wife has already given me the directive to buy her a Mac when her PC dies.
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