The ARM netbooks are about ready, here's a hands on:<br><br>A little about the device … it is 10.1 “netbook” powered by two cell battery and an ARM Cortex-A8 running
about 800MHz. They are extremely light and are made thin because they
don’t generate much heat. These are not production units and are
considered engineer samples...<br><br>...this device rocks and I can definitely see a bright future. The installed OS is Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.04. WiFi and Bluetooth are working; I was able to get on my home and work networks using Mozilla Firefox 3.0
for the browser. A level of Adobe Flash was working so Youtube worked,
but without the video acceleration it was not as smooth as it can be.
Drivers should be here in the next two weeks … I will just have to
wait. Power management should be ready soon too … it is doing well
without it though. Getting about 4 ½ hours on a 2 cell battery with the
screen at full brightness and WiFi powered on, that already beats
anything else out there. I expect much better battery life when the
power management software is implemented. The semiconductor company
said, they are getting 8 – 10 hrs on the design with the power
management working…<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br> From the blog of ARM's Director of Mobile Computing:<br>
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<a href="http://blogs.arm.com/smart-mobile-devices/first-taste-of-an-arm-powered-netbook-and-its-good/" target="_blank">http://blogs.arm.com/smart-mobile-devices/first-taste-of-an-arm-powered-netbook-and-its-good/</a><br>
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