First taste of an ARM notebook

[Asmo Koskinen]

Ace Suares kirjoitti:

> As you know, one of the main developers of Edubuntu, Oliver Grawert, is 
> working a lot on the ARM mobile devices.
> 
> http://blogs.arm.com/smart-mobile-devices/first-taste-of-an-arm-powered-netbook-and-its-good/

Here in Finland we have that Nokia/N8xx/ARM/Maemo -thing, I have one, too.

asmok at ubuntu:~$ ssh root at 192.168.1.106

Nokia-N800-23-14:~# uname -a
Linux Nokia-N800-23-14 2.6.21-omap1 #2 Tue Oct 14 11:25:25 EEST 2008 
armv6l unknown
Nokia-N800-23-14:~# cat /etc/issue
Internet Tablet OS: maemo Linux based OS2008 \n \l

My N800 is powerful and nice to use multimedia device.

So ARM-based laptops can be very attractive in school environment, too. 
But a review says:

"A level of Adobe Flash was working so Youtube worked, but without the 
video acceleration it was not as smooth as it can be. Drivers should be 
here in the next two weeks … I will just have to wait."

I think something like Intel Atom + AMD Ion can be very good next 
generation's DIY thin client - if it is good enough to work as a high 
end MythTV frontend, then why not as a thin client - cheap and fanless?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU
http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-c-u-atom-n230-1-6ghz-mini-itx-intel-motherboard.html
http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-IONITX-C-U-Single-90-Watt-Motherboard/dp/B002BA5IHW

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.