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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Some of the Atom netbooks with 6 cell batteries can get very close to (and maybe even exceed) 8h runtimes. Presumably the machine in question is also running off of a 6 cell battery, as Intel has improved power efficiency greatly, while OTOH Freescale hasn't done much beyond what they originally had. Freescale simply lacks the funding.
Personally I'm finished with non-x86 architectures unless I have no choice in the matter. I'd MUCH rather have the capability to run Windows and be able to play at least some kind of recent games, apps, and quite frankly general software support(e.g. browser plugins) over having a few minutes more runtime if you even would get that.
AMD and Via ARE interesting in that they'd likely be using better 3D GPUs than what you typically get with current Atom based netbooks barring Asus' N10J, but even that is only a slight step up...