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simoncion on Jan 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devi...

> ARM laptops are way different. For starters, they wont run any programs that run on other laptops.

http://blogs.arm.com/smart-connected-devices/60-firefox-35-s...

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumArm

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-arm.xml

nl on Jan 13, 2012 [–]

I think it is pretty reasonable to assume the parent meant "they wont run any Windows programs that run on other Windows laptops"

As I noted in my reply, he's mostly wrong about that too.

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