I see this as an attack on ipad for business. I worked for a company that had to support ipads for business, we were using Xamarin and it was a slow and painful, expensive process but the systems were easy to manage, although using an onscreen keyboard was limiting. Imagine the same benefits of ipad for business without having to license a private app store from Apple. Imagine the cost per unit is lower and you can use .Net without the pain of Xamarin involved to roll out software as regular win32 binaries instead of jumping through hoops to produce an ios app in a .Net based business.
Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE
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It's publicly leaked and runs on any UEFI+ACPI ARM64 hardware.
that just made my day! wondering what hacks are required to boot and run windows server on a phone.
Well if it is even remotely possible, you can probably find someone at XDA already working on it.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did hear this from my Prof in our university too, where can I find information about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
I think you were thinking of microarchitecture, microcode is related but probably not what parent meant.
Information about Intel internal architectures is highly confidential, but there are remotely related technologies that are generic and public, for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
that just made my day! wondering what hacks are required to boot and run windows server on a phone.
Well if it is even remotely possible, you can probably find someone at XDA already working on it.
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=37172...
Windows on ARM64 is very flexible actually...
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I definitely think it will be popular in the future. It depends on who wins the race for ubiquitous network coverage, though. Google, Facebook, and SpaceX have all moved to initiate programs to install global high speed wifi access. This is probably the last edge chance for cellular network companies in the long term. If wifi hits first, with projects like Google home offering free calling as well as other ip-phone s…
Is tethering too complicated for most people? Simpler tethering seems like it would be more helpful here than a new CPU architecture that also requires people to have a second SIM they need to get on their plan.
I'd love to tether, but don't because my carrier (AT&T) won't enable it for a single device, only for all accounts on my family plan. My family could easily (even innocently) use up our monthly data allotment in a day.
Also, how can you limit data usage while tethering? Can a device tell if it's tethered, or does it just assume it has a normal wifi connection? Do you need to turn off automatic updates on laptops?
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This is lunacy. It will break compatibility with nearly all software out there. From games to productivity apps. Like the stuff I actually use a PC for.
Productivity apps are almost never developed in assembly language. They are developed in some high level language, so for each of such language, assuming the Windows 10 APIs are the same (which they WILL be, no need to change them): - Java Java applications will not require any recompilations, they will run immediately because they run on a JVM - C#/VB/F# Those applications still will run right away because they run…
Memory model and byte order is enough to add breakage to stuff written in all of those languages.
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#107I look forward to learning more about this product. I love that we're moving non-x86 into mainstream consumer products like this (and not limited to low-end chromebooks, e.g.). ARM SoCs lack the backward compatible x86 BIOS-style bootstrap. This is great because it's kinda crazy to think about booting into stuff like MBR, real mode, etc in 2017. But this is bad because without good standards it's really tricky to hav…
>Awful: often used to protect subsidies or other business model hijinks; can't install an alternate OS.
And there's the rub. Microsoft forbids manufacturers of ARM-based Windows devices from allowing customers to disable or customize secure boot.[0] I doubt they'll change that going forward.
>On an ARM system, it is forbidden to enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode may be enabled.
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...
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#108> With a Snapdragon inside your PC, you'll no longer need Wi-Fi to fetch your latest e-mail and catch up on Twitter. Instead, you'll be able to get online wherever there's cellular connectivity. I'm not buying the optimism, especially not in the US. The cellular data is still horribly limited. In Canada it is even worse. The "unlimited" plan is surging back, but it has automatic throttling at varying points. Oh and s…
Notice they said, email and twitter. Both are things that don't use much data. They already know that AT&T and Verizon will choke the crap out of this with their false limitations.
Twitter uses a lot of data these days with autoplaying GIFs and videos...
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Is tethering too complicated for most people? Simpler tethering seems like it would be more helpful here than a new CPU architecture that also requires people to have a second SIM they need to get on their plan.
I'd love to tether, but don't because my carrier (AT&T) won't enable it for a single device, only for all accounts on my family plan. My family could easily (even innocently) use up our monthly data allotment in a day. Also, how can you limit data usage while tethering? Can a device tell if it's tethered, or does it just assume it has a normal wifi connection? Do you need to turn off automatic updates on laptops?
None of this is solved by having a modem in your computer though.
Though Windows 10 does let you mark a connection as metered, though I don't think anything except the OS pays attention to that. But again, that's orthogonal to whether your laptop has a modem and will likely not be solved.
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Is tethering too complicated for most people? Simpler tethering seems like it would be more helpful here than a new CPU architecture that also requires people to have a second SIM they need to get on their plan.
For most users, I would say yes. Of course they want it to be as seamless and simple as possible to connect to information. Tethering is hardly a second thought for most people who are comfortable with the technology, but you're forgetting most of the rest of the world here, as well as a lot of people outside the tech realm. Never mind people who currently live outside of high-speed wired internet zones -- with cell…
There's no downside to having this as an option, I just wonder if this feature will drive any consumer demand.