On Thursday, Nov 5, 2009, dammy wrote:
> On Thursday, Nov 5, 2009, AdmV wrote:
> > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/05/asus_smartbook_delay/
> >
> > Your cornflakes pissed in once again.
>
> Pity. Wonder if the ARM dual core is being delayed or are they going to
> Atom instead...
>
> Dammy
Contrary to the claims made by the lunatic ARM crowd round here, ASUS have been pondering how the hell they can make it work. A 5"-7" screen, and other limited confines of their or whomever's considerations. Clearly they are stuck in a hole becasue at 5"-7", you are fighting off phones as well as netbooks, and being caught in two stools leads to the 'it will be ok in asia' commentary.
Basically, you can see ASUS don't really have their heart in this, don't believe in it, and are struggling to really see the point. Welcome to the club.
Lets put this another way, if the device and its build, design, cpu power, battery life, and the rest were really game changing, nothing would stop a vendor from shipping it.
So, we are back to square one. People here talking about ARM as the next coming, and some of us saying 'ok, where?'. Months later, still nothing in market.
On the other side of things, while the ARM side drowns in its sea of fog and mislaunches, paper launches, the Atom and X86 side is shipping devices with 7" to 11" screens, ION and 4500 based gfx, 12 hour battery life, and products available at eye wateringly low prices.
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