Shifting Apps To ARM Chips Could Save Laptop Batteries 326
An anonymous reader writes "When is an Intel PC not an Intel PC? When it moves applications such as Internet browsing and email on to an ARM processor because it can get longer battery life. And according to a story at EE Times, this hybrid Intel-ARM processor approach is being taken by PC makers as prominent as Dell. The problem for Intel: Why would you switch out of 'all-day' mode and use the Intel processor? The problem for ARM: lacking support from Microsoft for Windows; the applications it runs for the PC have to do so under Linux."
Options (Score:2, Funny)
Or... you could just switch to linux.
Nah, too easy.
Re:Not a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Can someone send a crate of these NSLU32 to NASA?
Re:Not a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Sure... now, how many bushels in a crate [cnn.com]?
Shifting to paper could save laptop batteries (Score:2, Funny)
An anonymous reader writes:
"When is an Intel PC not an Intel PC? When it moves applications such as word processing on to a piece of paper because it can get longer battery life. And according to a story at EE Times, this hybrid Intel-Paper approach is being taken by PC makers as prominent as Dell. The problem for Intel: Why would you switch out of 'all-day' mode and use the Intel processor? The problem for paper: lacking support from Microsoft for Windows; the applications it runs for the PC have to do so under pen or pencil."
Re:The CPU is not the biggest consumer (Score:1, Funny)
OLED, we're looking at you. Hurry up and become mainstream already.
Re:I like it (Score:2, Funny)
Why can't you give your presentation in Vi?
Re:Not a problem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not a problem (Score:3, Funny)
It's a perfect UMPC for me, a really "mobile" PC, smaller than my wallet, actually.
You must have a george constanza wallet. I'll be impressed when they get a really "mobile" PC smaller than my wallet [all-ett.com].
Re:Jack Bauer Option (Score:4, Funny)
"Have you used Windows Mobile? That's something I reserve for inflicting on only my worst enemies and only as a last resort. It's the Jack Bauer option of OSs."
That is an insult to Jack Bauer. He is competent and works 24 hours a day.
Re:Jack Bauer Option (Score:4, Funny)
"Have you used Windows Mobile? That's something I reserve for inflicting on only my worst enemies and only as a last resort. It's the Jack Bauer option of OSs."
That is an insult to Jack Bauer. He is competent and works 24 hours a day.
But only one day a year.
Re:Not a problem (Score:1, Funny)
Don't you really mean "Jack Thompson"? >:-D
Re:Jack Bauer Option (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but he spends the rest of the year describing everything he did on that one day to ad-nauseam, and he always makes it sound like he saved the world.