Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 29th Sep 2009 19:43 UTC
"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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See the Sharp NetWalker. 100% arm. 100% Ubuntu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartbook#Sharp_Netwalker
Sure it's only sold in Japan IIRC, but it seems to be doing quite well even though it has not been officially launched yet.
Ubuntu doesn't fit very well, I wonder if it really is the netbook version(in that case the netbook version sucks) or they went with a regular outdated version(8.04), because the characters and the menu surface are too small while the icons are well endowed.
In any case the only thing that keeps me from getting one is that they are a bit to expensive to justify an ARM only PC with little storage. If they had priced it a bit cheaper like the dictionaries it is based on, I would have bought one for sure.
That is the real netbook format I was waiting for.
On thing is sure, they are doing a lot of promotion for the OOo suite and what's better, they are honest about its shortcomings.