Comment Re:ARM powered laptop with flash (Score 0) 142
If somebody made an ARM powered laptop with solid state storage then I'd be very happy. No moving parts, silent, incredible battery life.
Sounds like you are describing current state of art PDA's. The only difference is large screen and usable keyboard.
I wander why no vendor ever attempted to release such a thing. Absence of a market for such thing can be a reason but I think that the biggest obstacle is that Microsoft does not have a full-blown version of Windows for such a machine. General public is not going to buy an ARM-based laptop if it does not have Windows inside. And besides, I doubt there is an ARM Linux distribution with X Window, but it will be trivial to put up if hardware is present.
This idea needs a jumpstart to achieve a wide adoption. Just imagine what if Nicolas Negroponte with One Laptop per Child project would go this way instead of underpowered AMD and real hard disks. Africa is a rough place and hard disks are going to break pretty soon in those laptops.
I was unhappy with the noise of my desktop PC's fan. My laptop's fan is still producing too much noise to be comfortable. If I saw a laptop that you describe I will buy it right away!
Sounds like you are describing current state of art PDA's. The only difference is large screen and usable keyboard.
I wander why no vendor ever attempted to release such a thing. Absence of a market for such thing can be a reason but I think that the biggest obstacle is that Microsoft does not have a full-blown version of Windows for such a machine. General public is not going to buy an ARM-based laptop if it does not have Windows inside. And besides, I doubt there is an ARM Linux distribution with X Window, but it will be trivial to put up if hardware is present.
This idea needs a jumpstart to achieve a wide adoption. Just imagine what if Nicolas Negroponte with One Laptop per Child project would go this way instead of underpowered AMD and real hard disks. Africa is a rough place and hard disks are going to break pretty soon in those laptops.
I was unhappy with the noise of my desktop PC's fan. My laptop's fan is still producing too much noise to be comfortable. If I saw a laptop that you describe I will buy it right away!
