On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:34 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: > 2010/2/3 Dianne Reuby <pramc...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > In the PC Pro newsletter today, these two items caught my attention. > > http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/355246/arm-our-netbooks-will-fly-with-or-without-windows > > One significant barrier to ARM CPUs in netbooks is Windows' lack of > > support for the company's processors. East admits it's a problem. "If we > > were to wake up tomorrow and find Windows support for ARM it would > > certainly accelerate ARM penetration in that space," he said. > > > > I had a play with a few ARM based computers at the last UDS and on the > podcast we interviewed very nice man from Freescale (who manufacture > ARM-based chips). There's certainly an opportunity for ARM to take > over somewhat this year I hope there are plenty of brave manufacturers > willing to take the leap away from x86. The prospect of many tens of > hours of battery life coupled with HD video playback and a familiar > (to me) interface means I'm somewhat holding back on buying a new > laptop until much later in the year.
Well, I have to say I absolutely love my ARM-based Nokia N900 and I'm definitely considering getting a Touch Book: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ In terms of games, the Pandora looks great too: http://www.open-pandora.org/ So yes, I think a lot of good things may come from ARM in 2010. Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
