That was a stupid concept, I remember their videos with the french accent. Kudos to them for giving it a try though, but they tried to do too much.
Obviously what I wanted was for a proper company like Asus/MSI/Lenovo making a netbook based on Arm instead of Intel.
Or even a minor company making something sensible like the Intel based Asus Netbook that came out in 2007. Arm should have been out BEFORE intel, because they had better technology for it and Intel did not, and original Netbooks based on Linux were very popular. Popularity actually took a dive initially when Netbooks swtched to the phased out Windows XP. Because Windows sucked really really bad for netbook.
And I hoped a standard could arise for “desktop” Arm like existed for the PC standard. Texas Instruments announced it with Freescale, but nothing ever came of it, and AFAIK TI sold off Freescsale.
So no a proper Linux netbook was never made, that competed directly with X86 netbooks. Despite they could have had more than twice the battery life for the same performance. Why Arm never bothered to make such a standard, I will never understand.
And why such a standard remains missing in the market is also strange IMO?
Apple has shown that an Arm platform can be way superior to X86 on laptop. Still it’s crickets from the PC industry and Arm?
What you’re asking for here actually DID become available in about 2009…and I got one. The experience was…not great.
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That was a stupid concept, I remember their videos with the french accent. Kudos to them for giving it a try though, but they tried to do too much.
Obviously what I wanted was for a proper company like Asus/MSI/Lenovo making a netbook based on Arm instead of Intel.
Or even a minor company making something sensible like the Intel based Asus Netbook that came out in 2007. Arm should have been out BEFORE intel, because they had better technology for it and Intel did not, and original Netbooks based on Linux were very popular. Popularity actually took a dive initially when Netbooks swtched to the phased out Windows XP. Because Windows sucked really really bad for netbook.
And I hoped a standard could arise for “desktop” Arm like existed for the PC standard. Texas Instruments announced it with Freescale, but nothing ever came of it, and AFAIK TI sold off Freescsale.
So no a proper Linux netbook was never made, that competed directly with X86 netbooks. Despite they could have had more than twice the battery life for the same performance. Why Arm never bothered to make such a standard, I will never understand.
And why such a standard remains missing in the market is also strange IMO?
Apple has shown that an Arm platform can be way superior to X86 on laptop. Still it’s crickets from the PC industry and Arm?