Android/Arm at Robert Pogson

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.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.