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> On 10-06-11 11:41 AM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Arm chief cautious on tablet PCs
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>> | Mr Brownâs caution may be partly explained by
>> | Armâs unsuccessful attempt last year to bring
>> | its chips to the traditional PC markets with
>> | so-called âsmart booksâ. Smart books are cheap
>> | laptop computers that have long battery life
>> | and constant internet connectivity because
>> | they run on low-power Arm chips and a Linux-
>> | based operating system, such as Googleâs
>> | Android.
>> |
>> | While dozens of prototype smart book models
>> | were the focus of last yearâs Computex and the
>> | Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas this
>> | year, device makers were never really sold on
>> | the concept and few became actual products.
>> |
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> So can anyone here that was telling us how the Smartbooks were going to
> rule the world about a year ago please explain why it never happened?
>
> Then again maybe the Smartbook from many vendors became the iPad from
> one vendor, selling a mere 2 million units in two months.
The smartbooks became tablets. With parties like TechCrunch pushing in new directions
(well before hypePad) it seemed like a good market distinguisher.
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