ARM architecture approach in the MacBook Air?

ARM architecture approach in the MacBook Air?

The ARM (Advanced RISC Machine acronym) are used today for smartphones and other tablets. At Apple powerbook g4 15 inch battery, more specifically, the mobile operating system IOS was developed to run on these architectures, following the takeover of PA Semi by the Cupertino company.

If we find today in the ARM architecture processors powering A4 Apple iPad 1, iPod touch and iPhone 4, as well as in the recent processor Apple iPad A5, it may soon happen in our laptops that equipped with xps m1330 batteries. And for good reason, today Ben Reitzes, an analyst at Barclays Capital, announcing the imminent arrival (forecast state 2012) of a MacBook Air running through the ARM architecture.

If this is the case, Apple would be the first manufacturer to generalize the ARM architecture on a laptop that use a Dell inspiron 6400 battery as the power, with the direct consequence a significant increase in autonomy. Indeed, the ARM architecture is characterized by a much more simple than other families of processors and has low power consumption.

The choice of the Toshiba satellite a205 battery is not trivial either: it has always been promoted by Steve Jobs as the result of the encounter between a MacBook Pro and an iPad. The ultra-portable Apple has grown accustomed to putting on recent developments thoughts by Apple: SSD, dropping the optical drive, refined aluminum design, etc. ...

From a software perspective, it is noted that if the Apple powerbook g4 12 inch battery should see the day, Apple will be forced to adapt the operation of its Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to the ARM architecture. In this regard, Microsoft has already indicated that an ARM version of Windows 8 was in preparation ...

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