Comments on: Cortex in Freescale in Pegatron in..pressive!

By: bu

bu — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:32:29 +0000

Android on arm laptop is more or less useless(android on tablets is viable solution because tablet is just huge cell phone), only full featured Linux desktop can put arm laptop train in full movement. I guess lxde would be best solution Distribution? Only well established one… Companies such as canonical, google, redhat or novell should stand behind this…
If someone buys laptop alike device he will expect full desktop experience. From web browser, video and music player and editor, torrent client, skype, file manager, archive manager, compatible office suite and a set of commonly used drivers for printers scanners mp3 players cameras… FULL DEAL!

By: Gary Wright

Gary Wright — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:02:23 +0000

Pegatron gets with Freescale Cortex to shake up the smartbook/netbook pricing ( http://bit.ly/doVR8c ) in this Flash lite capable device.

By: ig

ig — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:47:16 +0000

It already runs (can run) Android. I’ve seen them at Freescale events. Plays 720pHD video as well.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:07:31 +0000

Some one needs to tell them to try Android and touch screen on this.
That could prove to be a killer product & marketing move.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:37:53 +0000

From what I’ve read about LiFePO4 batteries (which are lithium ion batteries), they have lower energy densities. Basically it means that you may only get 6 hours vs 8 if you use a LiFePO4 battery instead of the traditional Li-ion battery of the same size.

Pixel Qi.. interesting but unproven tech. Until they get a manufacturing partner who are able to mass-produce their screens, I don’t see it taking off. I don’t think low-profit netbooks (which I’m guessing have minimal development time) will be the platform for introducing bleeding-edge technology.

By: pispot

pispot — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:08:10 +0000

WINE is not an emulator. Windows on WINE still needs i386-architecture. So no WINE-Windows programs on ARM ever

By: JP

JP — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:04:29 +0000

I will say it again here, too:

WINE is not an emulator, it’s a front-end for Windows libraries. So it’s useless if the CPU is not x86.

By: On the Low end of the price specturm

On the Low end of the price specturm — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:48:42 +0000

I will say this again here:

Lithium Ion Battery is a mistake. Lithium Ion has typically only 500 charges per life-time of the battery, where if they used the same LiFePO4 battery as the OLPC XO-1 then the battery would have a 2000 charges per lifetime (and cost less than Lithium Ion). Time will tell if the unit will do what they say it will… running only Linux it needs to be fast and maybe they should have put the Pixel Qi screens in it to increase the battery time even more (then with that long battery life feature beyond what any other netbook has, they would sell like hot cakes).

Oh – If they had enough RAM to run WINE (if WINE would run on their ARM processor) then many Windows apps and games would run on their Linux… of course testing will only see if this is possible at all!

Sometimes I think that engineers live in a bubble world of their own making and don’t look outside the box to see what is out there enough (doing much design work in both servers and desktops, I ran into many engineers who were total blockheads and were stuck on what they were doing and took offense at outside suggestions for improvement (not all, but too many were this way).

By: Will

Will — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:03:27 +0000

Nice design and not as bland as a lot of netbooks on the market. Lets hope they’re able to deliver something very similar in summer 09 at $199 with decent specs.

By: icura

icura — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:51:49 +0000

Great design! 8.9 inch displays giving 8 hours. I wish I knew the weight.

This could be a good Pandora alternative for those who don’t want to game.