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Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops by caffed on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:48PM (#17784928)
IMHO, ARM performance is "good enough" for consumption and light editing/creation.

The real test for this is software.

Anyone remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

Exactly...

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Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops by kalleboo on Saturday August 18, 2018 @11:37PM (#17792425)
No, but I do remember this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
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Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops by smolder on Friday August 17, 2018 @03:54PM (#17785258)
We've come a long way... Software vendors compiling for multiple targets doesn't seem so crazy anymore. We've got toolchains that are good at that, and we don't distribute software by floppy or cd anymore. Emulation seems like the wrong way to go.
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