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Acer to deliver ARM notebook within nine days

Tegra 2 ousts Intel, Android ousts Windows

Acer needs to hurry. Apparently, it's going to launch the first ever notebook based on an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip this month, and there only nine more days to go.

The - we suppose we have to say "smartbook", the moniker once given to ARM-based netbooks but sadly much out of favour in these tablet-centric times - will run Android 3.2 Honeycomb, according to company chairman JT Wang, speaking this week in Asia, Digitimes reports.

Acer won't ignore Intel, and will launch an "ultrabook" - the chip giant's term for skinny notebooks based in its chips - in December.

The battle of the 'books will really kick off next year, when, it has been forecast, some 7.6m ARM-based machines will ship, rising to a whopping 74m - 22.9 per cent of the laptop market - by 2015. ®

As long as we can replace Android I'm happy.

I don't want Android/Linux I want real Linux i.e. GNU/Linux, more specifically Debian.

Yer you can chroot Debian on Android, but that sucks (but it is better than nothing).

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AC100

Toshiba AC100 still exists, since about last November, and has ubuntu releases working on it.

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Blame the journalists

Most people don't need vast horsepower on a laptop, but the journalists who review these things seem obsessed with how fast they are. As long as it is fast enough to: browse the web; run a word processor & other such tasks then I would much rather have the extra battery life than useless speed.

Please can we have real people review these things in future.

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First?

What's this Asus Transformer in my hand then?

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Efika Screen

Screen in the Efika can be upgraded to 1280x720:

http://www.altechnative.net/?p=152

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