“Nipping his bullshit in the bud will hopefully help stop a new crop of poisonous idiots from appearing and flooding every tech site with crap and shouting down valid criticism.”
Very true, arguing with an idiot is annoying, but necessary to prevent misguided folk from believing what he says.

I didn’t know that. Learn something new every day ^_^.

Which is a shame – I’d like to at least get the second page of Google results before I find a source that refutes his bullshit, rather than using “I’m feeling lucky” and scoring every time. That’s when I even bother looking.

He’s worth answering, even if he is just trolling. (Although why anyone would pretend to be so mind-numbingly stupid as he seems to be for enjoyment is beyond my comprehension.) He’s the kind of overly-vocal “advocate” whose warped message is one that the young and impressionable pick up on.

Nipping his bullshit in the bud will hopefully help stop a new crop of poisonous idiots from appearing and flooding every tech site with crap and shouting down valid criticism.

Utter bollocks. BTW, an “equivalent” processor would be the fucking SAME performance, you dolt.

2-3x faster clock-for-clock? False.
2-3x faster with equivalent price? False.

So wrong on all counts that matter.

ARM may stand up well next to Atom, but a top-end i7 would obliterate any ARM CPU and would barely need to get out of an idle state to do it.

Bringing ARM to the desktop against Intel would be like bringing a cocktail stick to a nuke fight.

Atom or AMD Geode do the job well enough on a netbook using x86, that ARM is just not needed in that market. ARM does very well indeed on MOBILE PHONES, but not desktops or notebooks. Nothing ARM does can touch any x86 CPU in that market.

“Windows mobile might pretend to run on arm but nobody uses it.”

“Pretend”? How the fuck does an operating system “pretend” to run??

HTC use Windows Mobile, and they probably sell more handsets a month than all Linux-based phone sales ever.

“It’s just there to allow M$’s shills to deny that Ballmer is personally keeping linux arm netbooks from being sold on mass.”

Ballmer “personally” keeps ARM netbooks from being sold? What? The?? Fuck??? He hangs about in computer stores with a stick and hits people who look interested in the under-powered netbook that doesn’t run Windows??

Just fuck off and take your tinfoil hat with you.

“I mean, M$ has already been convicted of being an illegal monopoly,”

You keep saying it, but it still is not fucking true. You can say it until you’re blue in the fucking face, but Microsoft are still not an illegal monopoly.

“is it so hard for you to imagine that they would keep millions of people in poverty away from computers just so they could keep all the money?”

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

You’d think MS would want more people to buy computers, so they get to sell copies of Windows and Office and make yet more money. At least that’s how it works in the real world. Look up “cutting off your nose to spite your face” because that’s what you’re saying MS are doing.

To finish, I’ll paraphrase a great line from a great actor in a great film – “Adam, you are so mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence.”

Two indipendantly somewhat true statements don’t necessary correlate with each other in any way.

The reason there are no IA-64-based desktops is because they don’t exist, nor have they ever existed, and this has nothing to do with Intel having cornered the desktop market with IA-32/x86_64.

x86/x86_64 targets the desktop.
IA-64 targets the high end enterprise market (where it’s third behind Sparc and Power respectively), HP’s entire high end enterprise product lineup (Integrity and SuperDome) is exclusively Itanium-based, and their OS products (HP-UX and OpenVMS) only support Itanium* (they still support PA-RISC, Alpha and VAX, but none of the three are still produced), which amounts to ~80% of all Otanium systems sold. (Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, NEC, Groupe Bull and SGI also offer Intanium-based servers, blades and mainframes).

HP and Intel target x86 and IA-64 at completely different markets that don’t compete nor overlap – Itanium is priced an order of magnitude or two out of the desktop market, while it utterly destroys x86 on price/performance on Enterprise scale deployments and workloads.

As for Queefer, come guys, he isn’t even trying.