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Smartbooks to reach 165 million units in 2015, says study
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| ABI Research is projecting that 165 million
| "smartbooks" will ship in 2015. The secret
| for success for these non-x86-based, "always
| on" netbooks and MIDs is to keep the price
| under $200, says the research group.
|
| [...]
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| Indeed, in ABI's research, smartbooks appear
| to be subsets of netbooks and MIDs. In an ABI
| report from last year, the rise of low-cost
| ARM-based netbooks (i.e. smartbooks) sold in
| developing countries was considered to be a
| chief reason why the research firm projects
| that Linux will take the lead from Windows in
| the netbook market by 2013.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/ABI-Research-smartbook-study/?kc=rss
ARM strengthens low power hand, targets smart grid
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| As Intel moves into its heartland territory
| in smartphones, processor firm ARM is
| extending its reach in turn. With Intel's
| efforts to reduce power consumption
| dramatically in Atom as yet unproven, ARM
| hangs on to its power advantage, and is
| moving more aggressively into embedded
| wireless and the 'internet of things'.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/23/arm_extends_reach/
Recent:
Are smartbooks and Linux meant for each other?
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| Since the desktop line of Windows currently
| doesnât run on ARM processors, we can
| exclude XP/Vista/7 from the list of likely
| contenders as smartbook operating systems.
| Windows 7 successors are currently not
| planned to be ported to ARM and even that
| wouldnât be a complete solution since
| Windows applications will have to be ported
| as well (a very wide, close-sourced
| ecosystem).
|
| [...]
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| Linux on the other hand has a very good
| technical background on ARM. It has no
| limitations for processing cores and
| operating memory and has targeted
| distributions for this architecture.
| Android is an outstanding example but
| several well-known distributions â like
| Ubuntu â have ARM ports in addition to
| their x86 base edition. Also, due to the
| fact that most of the Linux applications
| are open-source, they are at least possible
| to port, so we can expect the full usual
| complement of desktop Linux applications to
| show up on an ARM Linux distribution when
| the need becomes visible for them.
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http://soltesza.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/are-smartbooks-and-linux-meant-for-each-other/
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