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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RE: Non-x86 based Netbooks
by Earl Colby pottinger on Tue 6th Jan 2009 12:38
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Member since:2005-07-06
Not just Windows. While Linux does support diffirent CPUs there are problems with support for some software on Non-x86 machines if any x86-Binary-Blobs are included.
My OS of choice BeOS (hopeful soon Haiku) really on have good support for x86 at present.
A large number of the hobby OSes out there assume x86, and even if the authors offer support for non-x86 machines the number with good support are limited.
And let's not forget all those who would like to shoe-horn Apple's OS into a netbook.
RE[2]: Non-x86 based Netbooks
by Adurbe on Tue 6th Jan 2009 13:04
in reply to "RE: Non-x86 based Netbooks"
Member since:2005-07-06
Not just Windows. While Linux does support diffirent CPUs there are problems with support for some software on Non-x86 machines if any x86-Binary-Blobs are included. My OS of choice BeOS (hopeful soon Haiku) really on have good support for x86 at present. A large number of the hobby OSes out there assume x86, and even if the authors offer support for non-x86 machines the number with good support are limited. And let's not forget all those who would like to shoe-horn Apple's OS into a netbook.
what shoehorn? works perfectly well thanks (other than the headphones port)
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Just imagine the return rate of these notebooks when customers realise they can't put windows on them.