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Then I got really into the original mini notebook, the Toshiba Libretto. Spent weeks stripping down Windows to run in the memory available, either 32 or 64MB I think. That was a cool machine.

Did you see, ARM just announced the A15, up to 2.5 GHz and 8 way, with all the features that make for a server CPU. The next few years are going to be very interesting. I think Microsoft will port to ARM. They took an architectural license to ARM, you do that if you intend to design custom ARM-based processors. Intel has got to be very concerned. PCs will be a 10% unit growth market at best over the next decade. The growth is in mobile devices and Atom-based netbooks are now being hurt by ARM-based iPad with plenty of ARM and Android-based tablets coming. Microsoft is seeing trouble too. The chip in an iPad is plenty powerful enough for most things that most people do with a computer now, and it costs maybe $40. Android costs nothing. What is the future for $150 Intel CPUs and $50 Windows OS'es?