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by mutantsushi on Thu 19th Sep 2013 21:30 UTC in reply to
"RE[2]: Comment by Drumhellar" Member since:  Excuse my comment
if you were just meaning to disparage Apple and not intending
your comment to actually be taken seriously...  ARM CPUs have
nothing do with presence or lack or ports or other features.
Here is a review discussing a Samsung ARM-CPU netbook that has
USB3, USB2, HDMI, and SD slot.  Re: the idea of fragmenting the
CPU architecture for low-end/hi-end OSX products, I don't see
the big deal. Apple's compiler infrastructure allows dual-binary
app's and you just need to select the desired target processors.
The only apps which really will make heavy use of architecture
specific products are high-end products, so that segment will
remain unfragmented. (and increasingly they are making use of
GPU resources not CPU, even though GPUs are fragmented between
OEMs and intermediary interfaces are used e.g. OpenCL)  This is
not a video game cons