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Direct link to this message	And you thought you were about to.. AdmV. AdmV. (195.11.197.194) london.stagetech.com
	http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/05/asus_smartbook_delay/ Your cornflakes pissed in once again.
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Direct link to this message	Re: And you thought you were about to.. dammy. damocles@thenostromo.com. (68.142.7.184) dsl-7-184.cofs.net
	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
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Direct link to this message	Re: And you thought you were about to.. AdmV. AdmV. (195.11.197.194) london.stagetech.com
	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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Direct link to this message	Re: And you thought you were about to.. XraalE. moo. (82.40.25.245) 82-40-25-245.cable.ubr04.uddi.blueyonder.co.uk
	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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