ARM Or Intel For MacBooks And Desktops? Apple’s Dilemma

IBTimes’s Carl Bagh observes that on the business front Investors.com has cited Barclays Capital stating that Apple shifting from Intel to ARM chips could cut processor cost by a third saving $25 per PC, and that MIS-ASIA cites a report by IDC which forecasts that ARM will capture a 15 percent share of the PC chip market by 2015.

Bagh notes that Apple’s strategy is now to integrate key features of iOS with Mac OS X, citing the example of the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air models borrowing key features from the iPad and Mac OS X Lion importing a host of features like Launchpad and Full screen mode from iOS, and sugggesting that in the context of Apple creating a unified experience for users across its devices and OS platform an, ARM-based MacBook Pro or laptop that runs on iOS could be a reality — a strategy that would allow Apple to slowly transition laptop users to more expensive Mac OS X desktops.

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