It’s happening! Android/Arm netbooks are coming on the market. $100 prices anyone? This is really the low end of price. How about performance? What can a 533 MHz ARM processor do? I have seen 100 MHz thin clients do very well. I expect this is about that level of performance.
see this blog by Seth Weintraub on some recent releases.
Now, Wintel has competition on hardware and software. It is all good. ARM has a reputation of being more efficient than x86. We shall see. It appears prices can be lowered with ARM. Intel can afford to cut its prices just as M$ can. 2009 is the year of GNU/Linux. There is just too much good news for any other interpretation.
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