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+2 Software compatibility with Surface devices!

Posted By: Mike Petch
Date: Tuesday, 16 April 2013, at 4:29 p.m.

In Response To: Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz CPU Processor (Istvan Eger)

I'd like to point out that Istvan has brought up a very crucial consideration in deciding on a Surface device. Any Surface device that is sold as a "Surface RT" device is using an ARM processor will not work with XG, and is incompatible with a lot of software. ARM processors have a completely different instructions set and software has to be recompiled to work on those devices. XG2 at present will not run on them. If you want compatibility with software you already have and use, do not use a Surface RT (Or any ARM based system), you will want Surface Pro devices (They use Intel x86 chips)

Arm processors drive most smartphones these days (Including Android and Apple iPhone/iPad), and the reason is because they are a low power consumption processors that generally gives better battery life than Intel chips.

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