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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Feb 2009 18:22 UTC

Chip company ARM is prepping to make its move into the netbook market, and now it has shown off a few prototype designs that really show off the benefits of using the ARM platform: thanks to passive cooling, no fans are required, enabling ARM netbooks to be much thinner and lighter than their Intel counterparts. Thanks to ZDNet, we have a nice video overview of these ARM netbooks - as well as a few very tiny ARM desktop machines.

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by dimosd on Tue 24th Feb 2009 18:35 UTC

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2006-02-10

Sounds good. It should give some competetion to Windows based netbooks

Edited 2009-02-24 18:36 UTC

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RE: Windows

by darknexus on Tue 24th Feb 2009 18:53 in reply to "Windows"

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2008-07-15

True, as this is one platform Microsoft won't be able to dominate simply by giving away XP.

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RE[2]: Windows

by poundsmack on Tue 24th Feb 2009 19:37 in reply to "RE: Windows"

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2005-07-13

instead they can use WinCE. MS has been developing for teh ARM architecture for years, and WinCE 7 is going to be poised for netbooks as well as phones (and embeded stuff, but thats not important right now).

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