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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« on: August 24, 2012, 12:05:17 PM »
Tablet-sales-to-hit-100-million-units-in-2012

That's almost 30% of the entire PC market.


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I think it's been around a decade since someone first suggested ARM as a possible AmigaOS target. A port back then could have led to AmigaOS being a major player in the tablet space by now. Too late now.

Hardly.  If it'd been completely rewritten and given away for free then someone might have used it on a cheap device, but probably not for very long.  The market is pretty much iOS or Android.
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2012, 09:23:56 PM »
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Why not? PWRficient and Xmos are low power chips, xmos is used in a few expansions gadgets for the iphone. So you say it as a joke but technically is not impossible,


It was very low power in it's day but tablets are something else altogether.  They require much lower power and PWRficient is well above that level.

It could probably be done but you'd have to reduce the frequency by a hefty margin and cut the memory speed right down.  You'd probably still need a big battery and a fan though.

The processors on the Sam boards are much more suitable for tablets.