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[2]: Non-x86 based Netbooks
by Adurbe on Tue 6th Jan 2009 13:04
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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.
what shoehorn? works perfectly well thanks (other than the headphones port)
RE[3]: Non-x86 based Netbooks
by Earl Colby pottinger on Wed 7th Jan 2009 20:30
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Shoehorn, in the sense of the size of the OS vs size of the primary storage unit on a netbook.
BeOS (my present OS) can fix in 170MB, Haiku should be less than 500MB.
How big is a useable OS-X? I have assumed at-least 1.5 GB, but correct me if I am wrong. I am never too old to learn more.
Note 1: I mean the basic installation that includes all the apple services (search, I-xxxx, etc) you would normally use within a year. But not any of the additional apps that everyone needs to add to an OS to get the work done.
Note 2: Am I correct in saying that Windows XP can be shrank a lot because of the number of services included that most users don't need/want?
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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.