NVIDIA Tegra Netbook Running Windows CE Appears
We’ve been excited about the Qualcomm Snapdragon netbooks for a while, as an instant-on device with long battery life seems tailor-made for netbook usage. The Snapdragon is not the only game in town, however, as NVIDIA is beginning to rock its Tegra chipset and the first netbook has appeared with the Tegra in tow.
The Mobinova Elan is a typical netbook-like device with an 8.9-inch screen and typical hardware. What sets it apart is the NVIDIA Tegra stuff inside, which turns the Elan into a mobile workhorse. The Elan is using Windows CE to run things and while that doesn’t get our motor running it makes sense as the Tegra (like the Snapdragon) cannot run typical OSes like Windows. Android would definitely work on the Elan like WinCE so we expect to start seeing more options in the Tegra camp soon.
Engadget China got to play with the Elan and from the video they shot it looks promising. What will end up determining how practical a Tegra netbook might be (Snapdragon, too) will be the price of the devices. Folks are not going to pay the same as they would for other netbooks running a “full” OS.
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Nvidia was promising Tegra devices that cost $100-$200 by the end of the year.
Personally I was hoping to see such a platform to be used more in a handheld MID type device
No reason why it couldn’t do that too. I think OEMs are focusing on the notebook form factor as consumers have voted for that with their wallets.
I wonder if this device will sync like the old win ce devices did. If not, I hope they have the ability to use them as an external drive so that putting files on them will be simple.
Tegra is a great Smartphone platform . But i can be a Rocking Netbook platform and possiblity of Chrome OS
http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1458