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From OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24209/NVIDIA_Announces_ARM_CPU_for_Desktop_Server_HPCAnd Microsoft is bringing Windows to ARM. This is getting weird.
Nvidia have been banging on about their tegra gear for years. Nothing has ever come of it, virtually nothing uses it afaik and the AC100 Toshiba netbook which came out recently and was reviewed by El Reg found that the software is years away from being usable. Even MIPS has better software support. So as far as ARM on the desktop goes... Lol, sorry, but it won't happen. Even in the NAS and home server/STB markets ARM is being pushed out by x86, specifically Atom. It simply doesn't have either the software or the performance.
I hope you've got some benchmarks to back that up. Because every review of the HD2 I've seen has said much the same: Good hardware let down by piss poor software. Also, comparing a phone to a netbook which is doing a whole hell of a lot more, really?
Again, citation needed.
Right, and what else is the netbook doing? Is it running Vista or Win7, for instance?
Hmm! And is my shout iirc...Gonna have to book some time off in the none too distant future Goodo, but what kind? Some lightweight distro like crunchbang or some full fat distro like Kubuntu?
Bah, LXDE is big and bloated! I use a pure Openbox install with Guake as a terminal emulator. Only reason for having X is that I want a graphical web browser.
Perhaps. But as I said, the software just isn't there yet. And yes, I'm including android in that. Maybe Android 3.0 will be the one that sorts it all. But in all honesty I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, no major complaints with 2.2 so far and that's on a fairly entry level smartphone.