Comments on: New Generation of Netbooks: $199 and $299, Eight Hour Battery & Sexy Design

By: DDevine

DDevine — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:07:51 +0000

of course it will do nearly everything you said because nearly all of that is web based! Even though it runs an ARM processor it will work perfectly with all web applications (and will do flash to some extent, there isn’t 100% support but should do YouTube) and will definitely be able to do MSN messenger.
You will definitely be able to play movies, however video editing software for the ARM architecture I am very unsure about.

You cannot however run Windows applications. Windows applications are for the X86 (Intel) architecture, and Windows CE (ARM compatible) is absolutely useless.

By: hal68k

hal68k — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:33:50 +0000

you could run windows ce on it (whyyyyy?) but it would be stupid.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:44:33 +0000

Alila, the prototypes I saw can play movies. Don’t recall if they had mics built in, but I’m sure final production units will.

By: Alila

Alila — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:11:02 +0000

Does it have a web cam or mic built in? and does it google,myspace,facebook and msn well? or is it not so compatible with stuff like facebook?
Oh and can u play movies on it or edit videos?

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:02:59 +0000

What i’d like to know; is would the device be able to freely function, and do efficiently; whilst running say xmms(for any audio format), browser, and social multi Instant Mess, all at the same time? I use a n810(arm platform as well) to do all this and it eats memory fast, and max’ out the processor(though its caped at 400mhz)but it also uses a lightweight OS, if this notebook uses Ubuntu, i fear its not compariable.

Also what major vendors; if anyone is aware; Would stock these so i can get my hands on it quickly?

By: Freescale’s ARM Netbooks Gaining Momentum | Notebooks.com

Freescale’s ARM Netbooks Gaining Momentum | Notebooks.com — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:53:47 +0000

[...] were excited to get an early hands-on with netbook prototypes based on Freescale Semiconductor’s iMX515 processor at CES 2009. I caught up with Glen [...]

By: dup

dup — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:32:54 +0000

and because the ARM cpu uses 0.3W at full speed :) you do not even need any kind of cooling! The ARM uses >4W and needs at least a passive cooler.

By: dup

dup — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:29:47 +0000

check openpandora.org. They use the same cpu, but clocked just at 600Mhz, while it can run 600-1000Mhz. Their latest video shows it running gimp, firefox and xmms easily at the same time. And it’s not even using yet hardware acceleration!!! If you check the HW accel. and especially the optimized codecs from ARM (see their website) you can easily outrun the fastest single core Atom!! While consuming less than 1/10 of the energy the Atom does…

By: noone

noone — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:58:00 +0000

Its an ARM Machine and cannot run Windows … and you cant compare the 600MHz ARM speed with 600 MHz x86 processors .. its the megahetz myth … this netbook would be great!

By: Samsung NC10 Netbook

Samsung NC10 Netbook — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:30:01 +0000

Will it be available on Amazon?