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I would love the day when you could get a motherboard and the current Intel and ARM chips are pin compatable so you could drop what you like in, wouldn't that be a wonderful dream.

I'm already crossing my fingers that AMD will offer that, as they have announced they are developing an ARM chip and historically are friendlier about socket compatibility.

Not really sure whether it's actually possible though. It also might not be quite as dreamy as you and I are imagining- are drivers CPU architecture dependent?



Drivers no, same with bios, but not as big an issue as it could be.

I admit the AMD/ARM possibilities you mention are certainly very interesting prospects.




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