Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 14:19 UTC
Netbooks use various types of processors, but most of them are built around Intel's Atom processor and architecture. There are more exotic options, such as the Chinese Longsoon processor, but those are quite rare and hard to come by - and certainly not as powerful. Apparently, another contender is preparing to enter the netbook processor market. Say hello to ARM.
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RE[2]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by _txf_ on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 14:50
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Isn't adobe porting flash onto arm? They have to as the iphone and pretty much any mobile device runs arm based cpus.
Either way they have somewhat of a head start as flash lite(a subset of full flash) runs on arm so I can't imagine it being too difficult.
Also given that these proposed cpus will be considerably beefier, there will be fewer performance considerations.
Edited 2008-10-23 14:51 UTC
RE[3]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by hobgoblin on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 16:17
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RE[3]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by mallard on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 19:58
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RE[3]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by 1c3d0g on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 20:58
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RE[2]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by UZ64 on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 19:47
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Are you defining good web experience by it's ability to surf youtube?
Looks that way, but you gotta admit, in most (dumb) computer users' minds, there's some truth to that. People seem to get hooked on YouTube for whatever reason and can't seem to go without it, or they'll have a fit. Personally, I wish YouTube would get rid of all the damn Flash and all that fancy crap and give us an old-fashioned link to a proper video file (ahhh... the good 'ol days...), but that'll never happen. At least give us an option, but they want to make it as complicated as possible to "save" one of their videos and be able to watch it off of their site.
IMO, Flash sucks (bigtime), but it's mostly required to appease all the brainwashed people out there who have had it forced upon them by sites requiring it and their computer's OEMs preinstalling it to the sight of dollar signs. And YouTube took its popularity and turned it into something that's here to stay. It's like Intel and Microsoft... Flash and YouTube... they've both reached mass popularity, and they both depend on each other (for the most part), and they will both continue to fuel each other.
Edited 2008-10-23 20:02 UTC
RE[3]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by lemur2 on Fri 24th Oct 2008 06:34
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"Are you defining good web experience by it's ability to surf youtube?
Looks that way, but you gotta admit, in most (dumb) computer users' minds, there's some truth to that. People seem to get hooked on YouTube for whatever reason and can't seem to go without it, or they'll have a fit. Personally, I wish YouTube would get rid of all the damn Flash and all that fancy crap and give us an old-fashioned link to a proper video file (ahhh... the good 'ol days...), but that'll never happen. At least give us an option, but they want to make it as complicated as possible to "save" one of their videos and be able to watch it off of their site.
IMO, Flash sucks (bigtime), but it's mostly required to appease all the brainwashed people out there who have had it forced upon them by sites requiring it and their computer's OEMs preinstalling it to the sight of dollar signs. And YouTube took its popularity and turned it into something that's here to stay. It's like Intel and Microsoft... Flash and YouTube... they've both reached mass popularity, and they both depend on each other (for the most part), and they will both continue to fuel each other. "
Linux can play flash video, on any architecture you please.
Use either Gnash or SWFdec.
I'm not sure if it works as a plugin currently with firefox ... I have had it working before, but last time I tried it didn't work.
RE[2]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by wannabe geek on Fri 24th Oct 2008 01:35
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RE[2]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by steve_s on Fri 24th Oct 2008 22:16
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Are you defining good web experience by it's ability to surf youtube?
Absolutely.
For most surfers the ability to see online video is an essential part of the experience. This generally means Flash.
In an ideal world, HTML5 would be complete, have standard (widely used and unencumbered) codecs defined for audio and video tags, and be widely deployed, and thus there would be no need for Flash. It's not.
Most surfers don't care about standards, they just want things to work. Those of us that do care are a tiny almost insignificant minority.
RE[3]: Then start investing in Gnash or SWFdec
by -ujb- on Mon 27th Oct 2008 11:47
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"Are you defining good web experience by it's ability to surf youtube?
Absolutely.
For most surfers the ability to see online video is an essential part of the experience. This generally means Flash.
"
For this task flash video is enough - and that's supported in MPlayer.
I use Youtube a lot on my MorphOS system. And there I don't have a proper Flash support (unfortunately), but flash video is not a show stopper since MPlayer does it perfectly.
Personally I'd rather like to see a ppc based netbook (would really like to use MorphOS on a mobile device), than on an ARM (but that's just fine, too).
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Are you defining good web experience by it's ability to surf youtube?
Edited 2008-10-23 14:41 UTC