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[...] Microsoft Surface might Arrive 26th October, nevertheless just about ARM [...]

By: James

James — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:01:14 +0000

Competing with ARM is why Intel is still heavily invested with the ATOM series.

So Intel isn’t counting on Haswell alone keeping ARM marketshare at bay.

Besides, they’re more likely to just make lower end versions of Haswell rather than lower the pricing on their higher end offerings.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:17:20 +0000

Thanks beefalo!

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:06:37 +0000

Agreed about battery life potential in Haswell and the ability for the platform to erode the ARM devices’ advantages. But I don’t think there’s any chance we’ll see ULV Haswell chips for sale until Summer 2013.

For Haswell to slow ARM’s marketshare march they’ll have to drop that 60% Intel markup too. The price will have to get closer to ARM now that we live in a “fast enough” app-centric world.

Adam

By: JohnCz

JohnCz — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:38:24 +0000

I’m definitely getting Surface (ARM based) for my mom&dad to facilitate Skyping. But for myself, I need a new computer much sooner..my current laptop is on its last legs (dropped once to many). So, I’m going to be on the lookout for an Intel based Windows 8 convertible this fall.

By: beefalo

beefalo — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:39:10 +0000

“you’ll have to wait until Q1 2012 for what we believe is a Core i5 version of the device”

I guess you meant Q1 2013??? I can’t wait that long!!!!!!