Linked by snydeq on Mon 1st Jun 2009 16:27 UTC
Qualcomm showed off a previously unannounced Eee PC running Android at Computex in Taipei. The machine has a 10-inch screen, built-in webcam, and a universal 3G radio that supports all UMTS and CDMA networks on all frequencies used around the world. The 'smartbook' runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon, a 1GHz ARM processor core that marks a shift away from Intel Atom x86-based netbooks. A second Android-based netbook -- a prototype by contract hardware maker Compal Electronics -- was also demoed at the show. Google, meanwhile, declined to discuss what steps it is taking to adapt the smartphone OS for laptops.
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ARM processors running at 1GHz in battery-powered mobile devices just don't have enough processing grunt to make such a thing practical.
Is it possible? Yes. Is it useable at al? No. Sorry.
If you want an application to work on an ARM device of this capability ... take the original source code and re-compile it for ARM. That is the ONLY practical way to run things on on an ARM device.
If you have an x86 binary-only copy of an application, you can forget about trying to run it satisfactorily on an ARM netbook.