Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 29th Sep 2009 19:43 UTC
"ARM comes of age with a major PC design breakthrough this week. The Cambridge-based company will see a microprocessor based on one of its low power cores sitting side-by-side with an Intel Core Duo in a Dell laptop PC. The key to ARM's success is Dell's plan to run Linux as a second rapid boot operating system on its Windows latptop... The high-end laptop called the Latitude Z will use the ARM-based processor to run a second Linux based operating system which will allow the machine to boot up quickly for specific applications such as music and video playing. The PC runs Windows 7 on a 1.4GHz Intel Core Duo processor as its main CPU. Still this marks a significant design win for ARM which finds itself sitting side-by-side with its main processor rival in a big brand name PC."
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Member since:2009-09-17
There have been laptops shipping with instant On OS for a while now, so its certainly doable.Maybe it wasn't in the 90s, but its doable now. These aren't really full dual-booting systems though, we aren't talking about buying something with Ubuntu and Win7 side by side, this is a stripped down linux. It is fairly interesting that they are shipping a system with both ARM and Intel chips with a flavor of linux booting on the ARM and Windows on the Intel, I never really expected to see that.
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RE[2]: Comment by Stephen!
by kaiwai on Wed 30th Sep 2009 03:21
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On what planet does Microsoft get to say what non-Microsoft software one is "forbidden" to run on ones machine?
OEM agreement - I suggest you look at the Be Inc. Versus Microsoft case. I am unsure what the situation is today but as so far as what has happened in the past - Microsoft has placed restrictions within the large OEM contracts. Restrictions included not replacing or offering an alternative to Internet Explorer icon on the desktop with an alternative browser, providing a dual boot system. The list goes on and on with the number of restrictions - which is what sparked the whole DOJ case off.
Too bad Judge Jackson opened his mouth and started blabbering on about Bill Gates having a Nepoleonic complex which Microsoft lawyers used to claim that the judge was biased an had an agenda against Microsoft. Had Judge Jackson kept his big trap shut - we'd be talking about Microsoft Operating Systems Ltd. and Microsoft Applications Ltd. - and the new copy of Microsoft Office running on Linux.
Edited 2009-09-30 03:22 UTC
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Isn't dual-boot of Windows/Linux usually forbidden by microsoft?