Why Apple won

http://coderoom.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/is-that-all/

>>22
Them being x86 is useful as it gives you much greater compatiblity, as pretty much anything works on x86 these days(you could even run Windows applications if you wanted), but the power consumption might be a problem.

>>23
mono works great on linux on ARM. i use it all the time on my n810. i've also run windows 2000 in qemu, and that was a little slow, but still usable. a modern ARM processor should be able to handle windows 7 without any trouble. qemu+wine might also be a viable option.

>>24
A native x86 would probably be faster than an ARM executing the same program. While an x86 would consume more power, an underclocked x86 (to let's say, equivalent speed of the ARM's emulating x86) would consume much less, probably less than the ARM.

Of course, how relevant this is depends on the amount of ARM to x86 code executed on the CPU.