CES2009 ARM Cortex-A8 processor-based Netbook from Freescale and Pegatron
ARMflix asked:
Freescale talk about their latest products, including processor-processor-based Cortex-A8's i.MX51 ARM netbooks entering the last of Pegatron. Expected to be the super cool / super NETBOOK less able to work with the 720p video.
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It’s now used on iPhone 3GS
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In the wikipedia article about Adobe Flash, they say Adobe is planning to release an ARM optimized version of Flash Player.
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Not being able to run WIndows XP may not be much of a problem, but trying to play current Flash content might be, as Gnash and SWFDec do not support any features of the new Flash 10, and Flash 8 and 9 support is limited.
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Bah, it can’t run Windows XP and Adobe’ implementation of Flash. That’s about it, your standard Netbook with a special interface ala Xandros’ work for the EeePC (or in this example Ubuntu) will run perfectly fine. It would be fine for what 90% of netbook users would need, just don’t market it as a “cheap notebook” it is a completely different set of uses. Personally I cannot wait to sell my soul to get a few of these to play with.
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ARM based netbooks could be epic…ARM processors would significantly cut the costs of the machine, and lower the power draw. Imagine a day when you can pick up a netbook for 100 bucks! I sure wouldnt mind that, even if they performed worse than the Atom or the Nano.
The only downside is that ARM=/=x86, so you cant run most normal programs.