[wastedyears]

*Mac power on sound*

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

I wonder about this chip...related thread:

Marvell goes Snapdragon hunting, announces Armada 610 mobile processor

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It is another ARM chip design and it's a "gigahertz class" mobile CPU that can not only do 1080p decoding but can handle encoding too, even able to pump pixels to four high-res (2,000 x 2,000) displays at once.

[CodeToad]

“it’s hard to imagine Apple using anything other than an ARM-based processor in there.”

I guess the author isn’t all that knowledgable about processors. The Intel Atom processor is a fantastic processor of the same electrical power but isn’t brian damaged as is the ARM.

[smokingfrog]

Did anyone get a good look at the “data tablets” (or whatever they called them) they were using at CTU Headquarters in the ‘24’ Season 8 premier? I was wondering if they were iPads. Chloe seems to be prominently using a Mac this year.

[Swordmaker]

ARM Wrestling? Which chip will power the iTablet... unscrewing the inscrutable when all they have to do is wait a week to find out. PING!

Mac iTablet Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[antiRepublicrat]

Apple didn’t buy PA Semi for no good reason.

[ctdonath2]

On a tangent here:

I predict the “tablet” will be Jobs’ last hurrah, a final masterpiece for his career. Having skirted death with pancreatic cancer, he knows he may very well not have enough left in him to complete a another industry-changing move. There was enough time & resources to pull this one off, and in the near term to get it settled into society, but personal realistic long-term goals do not include yet another industry-rattling culture-changing product. Kudos if he does, but at some point one’s own mortality becomes apparent and one adapts accordingly.

[SunkenCiv]

...after the claims made by Nvidia when it launched its newest Tegra ARM-based system-on-a-chip at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month - dual-core processor, full HD graphics, 15-hour movie-playback battery life - that Apple might have selected this part for the iPad. But a number of analysts this week said they believe the iPad may well be based on chippery designed by the Mac maker itself.

Intel has settled with AMD/ATI, and gotten cranky with Nvidia, all since Apple switched from Radeon to NVidia in its MacBook line. Thanks Ernest and Swordmaker.

• Apple Files Request to Take iPad Trademark From Fujitsu