Posts Tagged ‘netbooks’
Canonical Announces ARM Support
Canonical has announced that it will be adding ARM support to its mainstream desktop operating system. Ubuntu support for ARM will begin with version 9.04 which will be released in April of 2009. ARM is the architecture of choice for most mobile devices. Back in April, of a build of Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 by Nokia popped up in the blogosphere. Most netbooks have been built utilizing the Intel Atom processor, but ARM has recently announced its intentions to move into the netbook market with a partnership with Canonical. Netbooks are increasingly becoming mainstream and will play a vital role in the desktop operating system marketshare game. Microsoft has already made it very clear that the Windows team will be focused on performance and boot times on lower-end hardware, i.e. netbooks. Canonical has also been focused on the netbook market as that has been a stronghold for Linux as the idea of the netbook has evolved.
Tags: linux, netbooks, ubuntu
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Nov 16th, 2008
The Evolution of the Notebook
HP announced its new EliteBook 6930p notebook a few days ago, bragging up to 24 hours of battery life. To attain this long battery life it needs to have an extra high-capacity battery. If it’s anything like the Gateway or Dell machines with extra-capcity batteries that extend out of the normal case of the machine, then I won’t have anything to do with it, but that’s not what’s interesting here. It appears we are on the brink of the notebook becoming a commodity like cell phones are today. We have been seeing the rise of the use of ‘netbooks’, a smaller, cheaper form of laptops. With the new ‘all-day’ laptops, the small form-factor of the netbook, and wireless signal using WiMaxx or 3G, the computer is well on its way to becoming the new cell phone. In fact, Cnet has mentioned possible deals in the works between Dell and a wireless provider to offer a wireless plan that includes one of the Dell Inspiron Mini9’s. It’ll be interesting for sure what happens in the laptop market, but battery life was one of the missing links in our search for a true mobile computing experience.
Tags: dell, hp, netbooks, wimaxx
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Sep 13th, 2008
