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Re:Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie? by ken on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:53AM (#18872035)
That's a pretty big shut-in. Unless you're going to run a server farm full of iPads, it's useless to anyone outside of Apple.
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Re:Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie? by saagarjha on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:05AM (#18872305)
The chips in iPads are thermally constrained, so they would not do well in continuous loads. But if Apple were to ship an ARM Mac with a good TDP, this might change.
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