Comments on: Freescale Says ARM Will Power Half the Netbook Market http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413318 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:20:12 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413318 PJE and John B. have it right. Give me a cheap tablet-like device for in-house Wifi surfing, email, RSS. Think larger iPod Touch.

]]> By: John Bailo http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413317 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:38:34 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413317 All I want is a web reader-writer.

Just enough to blog and read blogs.

And I want it to be cheap enough so I don’t care if I lose it on a bus.

]]> By: PJE http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413316 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:41:11 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413316 @Nicholas, I agree that as a general purpose netbook, Windows XP (if you can still get it by the end of the year) would be the preference for most people – myself included – which would mean a X86 CPU.

That is not to say that you can’t sell a lot of relatively closed web based devices running on a Linux platform. It would definitely give the malware people something to think about.

A 7″ device with the right software would be ideal for email, light web browsing, ebooks and PMP functions. I feel a 5″ or smaller screen is too compromised for a lot of uses, and starts to compete too much with the iPhones of the world.

]]> By: Nicolas http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413315 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:43:17 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413315 A netbook with ARM processors, can’t run windows, you can’t even run windows inside a VM because no vmware, virtual box and so on on ARM.

I really doubt such netbooks will succeed (at least here in europe).

]]> By: PJE http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413314 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:26:45 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413314 Give me a 7″ 1024×600 slate with one of the new multi-core ARM systems running Ubuntu or something similar and I’d be happy.

Add bluetooth for connections to phones/external keyboards, USB for 3G modems and 2+ SDHC card slots for storage, and obviously WiFi, and keep the price below $250.

Make it plug into a PC as a mass storage device and secondary PC screen and I’d be even happier. Also, given the capabilities of some of the new ARM SOCs an HDMI port would be nice.

]]> By: Hans http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413313 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:37:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413313 I would be very happy to use an ARM based, non-Windows system with one single exception: Games. This is the one single thing keeping me connected to Windows. I’d also like improved 3D support, but that is generally a sub-issue of the games issue.

Regards,

Hans

]]> By: Scotty http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413312 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:35:32 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413312 Until Apple releases iTunes for ARM Freescale is giving out free tickets for a cruise up the river Denile of Reality.

The Vaio P has moved in and the linux Acer AO is looking for a good home here. Heck even its instant on OS appears to be a chunk of the PSP instead of linux. :-)

]]> By: dts http://gigaom.com/mobile/freescale-says-arm-will-power-half-the-netbook-market/#comment-413311 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:12:52 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29976#comment-413311 It’s true that people would give up on battery life to cling onto Windows. I would actually like to see Windows Mobile 6.5+ on these ARM-based netbook. That may give Freescale and ARM a better chance at competing with Intel Atom.

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