Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Jan 2009 09:36 UTC, submitted by caffeine deprived
It seems that after Intel, just about every chip maker wants a piece of the netbook pie. AMD is an obvious competitor, but VIA is also eyeing the little notebooks. However, more exotic options like the Chinese Loongson chips and ARM's Cortex A-8 and A-9 chips are also among the contenders. We can now add a new contender: Freescale.
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If I buy a netbook with an arm processor, and I don't like the OS it comes with, I have to go find a distro that has been ported to it. If there are none but the one that comes with it, then I am out of luck. In that scenario, so is the company I bought it from, as I am probably not going to be the only one in that situation. I can't even fall back to XP. Sounds like a bad deal to me.
Not supporting the arm processor but your logic is flawed. Computers used to all be proprietory and only worked with the software and hardware they were designed for and the world got along fine that way. We had far fewer incompatibilities then as well. Part of the problem with the PC is we expect them to run anything we throw at it then blame the OS maker for not making Obscure Part X work with it.