Replies to post #131649 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[techno_bull]

He mentions writing C# would require a different tool but really just about any modern software, database or BI development requires local computing power and storage and preferably lots of it.

[Unkwn]

All of this in a very sleek, inexpensive, and portable package. I still have my work computer, a Lenovo i7 based monster, but it is huge, heavy, and doesn't have nearly the battery life or portability of the Chromebook

Have a look at the current Macbook Air generation. It has very good battery life and much better performance than those ARM wimpy cores like the ones in the Samsung Chromebook. You can have both, decent horsepower and good battery life. Haswell made this possible and the Celerons aimed at Chromebooks are Haswell based. Intel reacted quickly, which is good. The Acer C720 is even cheaper than the Samsung one - not a price issue here.

Once Chrome OS develops towards a productivity OS, people will want productivity performance and only, I repeat, only, Intel provides that. But I know, ARM will have equal performance in two years what Intel took decades - you'll be surprised how steep the curve gets for them at the high end. No synthesized designs anymore, very complex cache controllers for decent multicore performance, high speed (and not royalty free) interfaces etc. You'll see a big slowdown in performance increases for ARM based CPUs.

By the way: Realized how ARM has nothing, nothing at all, introduced as successor to the A57, which basically is a 64 bit A15? That's not the pace they have to keep to achieve the goal to fight Intel in the PC domain, let alone server. From Announcement of a new core to ready chips significant time is needed. ARM is not moving quickly these days.