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____/ Nigel Feltham on Wednesday 09 Sep 2009 06:59 : \____
> noauth wrote:
>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/foxconn-launch-inexpensive-arm-
>> based-smartbooks-748
>>
>> There's already huge anticipation in China for the inexpensively priced
>> ARM-based Smartbooks which start as low as $100 and run only Linux.
>>
>> I'll tell ya, if they START pricing these things at $100 then in a
>> couple of years they'll fall below $75, maybe as low as $50. There's NO
>> WAY Microsoft can even begin to counter that. They're gonna lose
>> marketshare FAST.
>>
>> I bet they'll try to redefine the Smartbook market by saying it's not
>> part of the PC industry and they therefore aren't losing marketshare.
>> Yeah right. Intel too will feel like they're standing naked in the
>> middle of a busy street on a cold winter day.
>
> It's their own fault - intel could have benefited as well if they hadn't
> sold off their XScale ARM based CPU range a few years ago.
It's seems like OLPC-class PCs are coming with or without x86. The attempts to fix
the price of computers (and operating systems) are not working.
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