New ARM laptops

[Liam Proven]

These sound to me a bit more general-purpose than the Toshiba Android
machine...

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/372756/ubuntu_adds_sparkle_nufront_laptops/?eid=-219&uid=33968

[Liam Proven]

On Jan 14, 12:11 pm, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> These sound to me a bit more general-purpose than the Toshiba Android
> machine...
>

> http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/372756/ubuntu_adds_sparkle_nu...

You can find a few Nufront-related videos on Youtube, since the
article fails to link to one as it promises. All prototypes, as far as
I can see.

This one is from last September & shows a Mac-mini-sized desktop,
runninng Ubuntu, which I presume is a testbed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gfs5ujSw1Q

These are the notebooks discussed in the ComputerWorld article,
cheekily called Newton after another famous ARM-powered device:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpL-ZQf-tRc

Cheap, too, at US$300-$350 for the 14" machine and around $200 for the
10". Should be gratifyingly quiet, cool-running and with good battery
life, one would hope. They're claiming 5-6h on a 3-cell battery, maybe
12+h on a larger battery, once Ubuntu is tweaked.

I believe a 2GHz dual-core ARM makes these boxes the fastest ARM
devices in the world at the moment.

I don't know what the prospects are for ARM-on-ARM emulation to get
some kind of RISC OS emulator running on Ubuntu, which would be the
quick way to get Acorn apps running on it. I'd love one dual-booting
with native RISC OS, though.

- Liam P.

[billio]

There's also this

http://armdevices.net/2011/01/09/olpc-xo-1-75-arm-marvell-armada-610-version-of-the-xo-laptop/

Bill