The main advantage of a pre-loaded OS...

[William Park]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 05:44:22PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:20:40PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> > and drooling like crazy over them. I was _blown away_ by the demos at
> > CES, what they could accomplish in a device the size of a smartphone.
> > 
> > This was definitely NVidia's year.
> 
> The new ones being dual or even quad core ARM Cortex chips with rather
> impressive 3D graphics support will be impressive.  Vastly more so than
> intel's pathetic video on their atom systems.  Of course anyone that
> wants a good atom buys one with an nvidia ion chipset.  Gee, seems nvidia
> hasn't completely left the x86 chipset business after all, they are just
> focusing on where there is demand for efficient high performance graphics
> and especially video playback support.
> 
> Anyone that thinks what happens in the PC market is particularly relevant
> is just not aware of the reality.  When Apple went from PowerPc to intel
> people went "It's the end of the powerPC".  It didn't even make a blip.
> Apple was completely irrelevant to the PowerPC market.  The x86 is
> completely irrelevant to the electronics market as a whole.  There are
> more ARM devices sold in a year than there have been x86 machines
> ever made.  There were 6.1 billion ARM chips sold in 2010.  95% of smart
> phones (and a fair number of the not smart phones) are ARM based.
> 
> If nvidia could manage to grab 10% of the ARM market for cell phones and
> such especially the high end models that do lots of multimedia stuff,
> they are going to be making some decent money.

Consider this (something I've heard):
    What if netbooks come with cell phone builtin?
Degree of integration with host computer will affect useability, but I'm
sure it will be ironed out pretty fast.
-- 
William
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