Enough negative energy -_-
The whole X86 platform should be considered legacy. High power consumption, static form of processing, all the cores should be the same (No high performance ones and power saving ones as in ARM) ..etc. ARM gives comparable performance and hybrid PC cores. You have ones for high performance and others when you are just playing some music. Imagine a laptop battery that stays for +20 hours?
And the thing that you guys are missing is that not everything will be emulated. Windows itself, Store apps and Office will run natively on ARM. And other apps will have an ARM version released by their publishers to bypass the emulation thing. Open source apps like 7zip and notepad++ were ARM compiled for Windows RT devices after they were jailbroken.
2-5 years and no X86 apps will be produced. The only part that I'm sure ARM laptops will fail with is Gaming. In that case you're not replacing only the processor architecture but also the GPU, and ARM GPUs are nothing comparable to Nvidia, AMD and even Intel GPUs. Maybe this can be solved by having a normal Nvidia card in the laptop which runs the X86 games without emulation and the CPU part is emulated, but that is not that simple. You can't use two architectures together as I suppose.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
