#armprocessor

🎄💾🗓️ Day 6: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Apple Newton eMate 300 🎄💾🗓️

The eMate 300 was a before-Chromebook education-centric "laptop" by Apple, designed specifically for education as a low-cost laptop running the Newton OS. Released in 1997, it featured a 6.8-inch 480x320 grayscale touchscreen, a stylus, and a compact keyboard. It had a 25 MHz ARM 710a processor and built-in rechargeable batteries that could last up to 28 hours (I did not get that on ours, though). It was less powerful than the Newton MessagePad 2000, which was out at the same time however - the eMate had internal memory expansion and a PCMCIA slot for accessories like modems and Ethernet cards. Best of all, it had the translucent ascetic, which was popular then and built for classroom use. There were unreleased purple, clear, red, and orange versions, but we have yet to see those in real life.

When Apple moves Mac to Arm, is it time for Mac users to move to Windows? (via ZDNet)

It seems like an obvious question since new machines will have to be purchased. But the prevailing Facebook opinion is that it all depends on your apps. We take a deep dive. Come on in. The water’s fine.

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Source: When Apple moves Mac to Arm, is it time for Mac users to move to Windows? | ZDNet

Above is a very interesting article by ZDNet author David Gewirtz, who…

Why Apple will move Macs to ARM, and what consumers get

Apple has seen great and continued success with its own design of ARM processors for iOS (image: AppleInsider)

There are obvious hardware benefits if and when Apple shifts to ARM processors, and also underlying software ones, which mean that the move is going to bring advantages both to the company and to us. (William Gallagher with AppleInsider)

Source: Why Apple will move Macs to ARM, and what…