I wonder how this chromebook "containers system works" someone who knows more should comment on it.
From what I understand it is like virtualizing an OS but the virtual container is not keeping things sandbox with this implementation. This is in contrast to an official "virtualized" system like a virtual machine, you will be keeping at least double copies of many resources such as system stuff since the virtual container must have the necessary stuff just like the main windows since itis officially sandboxed.
I ask for from a curiosity standpoint, I wonder will this make comparing specific arm chips like the qualcomm 820 vs one of the intel chips like core m or the best cherry trail. Or will not really help with that for there is enough unique binaries for the arm version of android vs x86 and that reallys some tweaking of the software via the various hardware manufacturers like intel and qualcomm to optimize their software for their hardware make this not useful at looking at the hardware efficencies and differences of the chips, for the hardware to software layer is just as important.
In other words part of me wants to see which chips are better in an objective sense and the various pros and cons and the trade offs, and I wonder if this chromebook to android may be a useful tool for that or not. I understand what I want partly does not matter for the OS and real world implementation is better, but the tech nerd in me wants to know the various efficiencies of each hardware chip design.
In some ways this does not matter for ARM mobile chips at this very second in technology time has little to no competition with Intel's main dominated markets with the decline of atom, while arm in mobile is really dominating. Yet I am curious for I want to see how far behind is ARM, sure the desktop and laptops have way more tdp but I am curious on total performance comparison. I want to know for it helps imagine what the future progress over the next few years will be like when X total performance is achievable in smaller and smaller form factors, and at cheaper price points.
In other words I hope someone can answer my geek out for I find this stuff interesting.