Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 29th Sep 2009 19:43 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems "ARM comes of age with a major PC design breakthrough this week. The Cambridge-based company will see a microprocessor based on one of its low power cores sitting side-by-side with an Intel Core Duo in a Dell laptop PC. The key to ARM's success is Dell's plan to run Linux as a second rapid boot operating system on its Windows latptop... The high-end laptop called the Latitude Z will use the ARM-based processor to run a second Linux based operating system which will allow the machine to boot up quickly for specific applications such as music and video playing. The PC runs Windows 7 on a 1.4GHz Intel Core Duo processor as its main CPU. Still this marks a significant design win for ARM which finds itself sitting side-by-side with its main processor rival in a big brand name PC."
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That's not the only innovation
by Ventajou on Tue 29th Sep 2009 20:45 UTC
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2006-10-31

I've read about that laptop earlier today on Ars Technica, and another great innovation worth mentioning is that Dell is also selling an induction power supply for the laptop as well as a wireless dock.

Unfortunately that stuff comes at a cost, the laptop starts at $2000