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You can do all that...
You can stream music while swimming... just you need your PC very far from the swimming pool. You also can watch a recent movie on your car, well inside an autocinema.

Laughs aside, it is completely true that sometimes Intel creates things that end up on devices completely different from what they intended. Remember the 4004. It was intended for Busicom's calculators.

Lately, the Atom processor was created initially to compete against ARM and VIA in the low power CPUs and latter became the heart of the Eee PC and the Netbook craze.

Who knows: Maybe in the future, you could twitter with a Cereal Box using a 22nm implementation of Commodore's VIC-20 or stream music using Soda Cans with a 22nm rendition of the original Macintosh architecture, in a can-to-can network akin to AppleTalk.

It might seem odd, but you don't need a Core 2 Duo for most apps and maybe that's holding back some innovation.
Posted by: cosuna   Posted on: 09/22/09  (Edited: 09/22/2009 @ 12:22) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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