Re: And you thought you were about to..
XraalE. moo.
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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...
The dual core ARM probably makes little economic sense at this point. The original idea of a smartbook was a computer of lesser price than a netbook, with a modicum of popular applications - browsing, skype, messenger, word processing.
These days you can get netbooks of all sizes, and they're the real thing: running Windows, all applications, and without having to work through the glitches in someone else's Linux setup. And most of all, they're cheap.
The niche closed. By the time there is a mature Android and cheap dual core ARM, Intel will have launched a low power dual core Atom. They can't win now. Time to lick wounds and retreat.
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