We already know that Apple's upcoming 'Slab' tablet device, which is basically an e-book reader and media-playing tablet, will run the iPhone OS. Therefore, we can deduce it will have an ARM processor, so it won't be x86 at all.
It makes sense. ARM will give it better battery life. iPhone OS will allow it to be a multi-touch screen interface. It could only run iPhone apps instead of Mac OSX apps, but that probably doesn't matter for an e-book reader anyway.
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Apple is going ARM
We already know that Apple's upcoming 'Slab' tablet device, which is basically an e-book reader and media-playing tablet, will run the iPhone OS. Therefore, we can deduce it will have an ARM processor, so it won't be x86 at all.
It makes sense. ARM will give it better battery life. iPhone OS will allow it to be a multi-touch screen interface. It could only run iPhone apps instead of Mac OSX apps, but that probably doesn't matter for an e-book reader anyway.