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The saving grace is that general purpose silicon (CPU's) is still around, in the shape and form that fits prior, less dystopic bigtech objectives.

This is the era when the infamous #Wintel cartel was dominating "productivity" and personal computers and software and which actually gave rise to the #opensource movement.

For what its worth, this general purpose compute will be around for some time.

This provides a window of opportunity for escaping total software dependency.

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Обзор на мой новый x86 планшет с Core Ultra 5: Ninkear S13

Некоторое время назад у меня появилась необходимость в x86 ноутбуке-трансформере, который я мог бы брать с собой в дорогу. Поскольку я работаю над будущими статьями и проектами даже на отдыхе, мне нужно было устройство на достаточно производительном процессоре, с приличным объёмом ОЗУ и обязательно шустрым накопителем - я нередко собираю весьма тяжелые проекты. По итогу я остановился на трансформере Ninkear S13 с процессором Core Ultra 5 115U , 16ГБ DDR5 ОЗУ и 1ТБ накопителем, о котором и хочу сегодня рассказать Хабровчанам!

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1022440/

#monobogdan_ништячки #ninkear #обзоры #ninkear_s13 #планшет #wintel #таблетка #core_ultra_5 #intel #бенчмарк

NvidAI is the new SamDroid

SamDroid was the new WinTel

WinTel was the new AT&T / American Telephone & Telegraph

AT&T was once the new AP-Western Union / Associated Press-WU

Western Union was the new Pony Express.

AP-RSS / ActivityPub RSS are the new non-Silos

Silos pretended to be RSS

RSS was/is the non-Silo

WorldWideWeb was/is the new non-Silo

Internet was the new CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL, The Source, CR/S [Canada Remote Systems]

| #NvidAI #SamDroid #WinTel #WWW #RSS #AP #ActivityPub

Bisher hat #Intel einen großen Teil seines Erfolgs den #Windows Betriebssystemen zu verdanken. Das gilt genauso aber auch umgekehrt, und deshalb gibt es den Begriff #Wintel für diese Symbiose. Es wäre eine große Ironie der Geschichte, wenn #Microsoft durch das Straucheln des „Chipgiganten“ auf die #ARM Architektur wechseln müsste.

Der US-Chipriese schickt seinen CEO Pat #Gelsinger überraschend schnell in den Ruhestand. https://search.app/6RGunCXfChc9dmCQ9

@aral if not for a decade of progress in virtualization, allowing me to run some #unix on my corporate #wintel craptop, I'd have switched my career to welding long time ago.

Disclaimer: l like welding, it's my backup career skill when AI takes over software.

I sincerely hope they both lose their shirts.

#WinTel 2.0 now with #AI !

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079336/microsoft-intel-chip-partnership-foundry-tsmc

Oh well then, immediately my confidence soars...

"Specifically, Microsoft is said to be working on a new build of Windows"

#WinDragon ?
Death of #WinTel
#intelOutside
#Windows12

https://www.pcgamer.com/2024-could-be-the-year-the-pc-finally-dumps-x86-for-arm-all-thanks-to-windows-12-and-qualcomms-new-chip/

So, um, an #AI told them to do it?

“Microsoft To Take On Apple Silicon With Custom ARM Chips" https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/05/01/215222/microsoft-to-take-on-apple-silicon-with-custom-arm-chips

–or–

maybe just the traditional sell-side Wall Street hype-machine?

ARM (Softbank) is prepping for a US IPO:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/30/softbanks-arm-registers-for-blockbuster-us-ipo.html

#BigTech
#Apple
#Microsoft
#ARM
#Intel
#WinTel

#wintel

@DarkSmoke visto, 18 ore di autonomia, potenza stratosferica, qua #apple è 5 anni avanti a tutti, un po' come lo era quando debuttò l'iPhone

Congratulazioni ad apple, ne venderanno una strage, finalmente un laptop leggero che tiene la carica tutta la giornata

E' anche la dimostrazione di quanto il monopolio #wintel abbia fatto male al mondo del #PC che infatti è stato surclassato da smartphone/tablet e ora ridicolizzato nelle prestazioni da apple

però è presto per acquistarlo, io aspetterei

Reinventing Computing

Rajesh Jain’s has an interesting blog piece about reinventing computing and the need to break the WinTel (Windows/Intel) stranglehold.

While I agree mostly with Rajesh, I don’t know if the WinTel demon is a strong as it once was. MS faces increasing competition for ‘nix, and Macintosh, and various anti-trust cases worldwide. Intel is battling with AMD in the 32-bit market, and, I believe, only playing catchup with AMD in the 64-bit market.

The options are there to break away from WinTel, and in many case’s they are more affordable. In my experience people pay for and stay with quality products. So is quality the demon that needs to be quashed?

Yes, Macintosh produce a brilliant quality product, no arguments there, but the software/user base is relatively small. Linux is a great quality server product, but is still playing catch up and not yet ready for the desktop market. Although it will run on nearly any piece of hardware you can throw at it.

People stay with WinTel, because of reliability, compatibility and reasonable performance. Forget the security issues, they’re just part and parcel of being the dominant player in the market. Just because you don’t hear about Mac and Linux exploits, doesn’t mean they’re not there, it’s just that you don’t have the everyone and their grandmother looking for exploits on those platforms.

Why? simple logic, if you want to hack people, you target your hack, virus or whatever at the most popular platform so that you’ll have the most success.

The future of computing does not require the breaking of WinTel, but rather a return to what computing used to be. A return to developing new products and ideas because they are cool and needed. We need a return to innovation, but the market will never truly allow that, as cash is the all important factor, and in the market all projects must be successful and generate revenue.

What we need is for the bigger companies to stop being afraid of trying new things, just because it might fail in the market. That’s the wrong way of thinking. When the first personal computer was built, nobody believed it would be successful either. Look how far we have come.

#Computing #Intel #Windows #WinTel