AMD may be rumored to give Intel’s Atom architecture a run for its money in the netbook and mobile Internet device market, but they aren’t the only ones. Today ARM, provider of silicon for low-power consumption processors (which are found in smart phones and personal media players like the Archos 5), announced that it’s going full force into netbooks. The company is teaming up with Canonical to optimize the Ubuntu Desktop operating system for ARMv7 architecture, including ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor-based systems.
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Are you sweaty? Are you concerned about the effect of your perspiration on your notebook? Do you find yourself often plopping down on the couch, only to realize that you’ve landed on your laptop? Do you compute while you commute and fear that the drunk guy standing next to you on the train will lose his balance and reduce your laptop to bits?
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If you’ve always thought buying a netbook would be a great idea if only there was a bit more screen real estate, you’ll be excited to see that the only netbook with a 12-inch display, the Inspiron Mini 12, is up for configurable grabs at Dell’s Web site.
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As rumored, AMD confirmed this morning at its 2008 Financial Analyst Day that it’s ready to provide architecture for netbooks. After AMD talked about growth potential and its server business, Dirk Meyer, President and CEO of AMD took stage to give us the news we were waiting for.
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When Sirius and XM began merger talks in what seems to have been a lifetime ago, we satellite radio heads expected a combination of awesomeness that would rival peanut butter & jelly, mac & cheese, and other delicious edibles. But after going over the new combined lineups that our homies at Gizmodo posted, several of us are passing napkins about–and tears of joy are not the cause.
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As anyone who reads this blog is well aware, we’re a bit obsessed with battery life around here. And with good reason! One of the things anyone who uses mobile technology wants most is more time away from the plug and the outlet. After all, it is supposed to be mobile.
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Just as holiday shopping madness is poised to take over the minds of gadget-hounds all across this fair land, SanDisk, one of the big guns in the flash player space, has announced a new 8GB capacity for its Sansa Clip.
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Today, AT&T announced the Fuze, their version of Sprint’s HTC Touch Pro. The two phones are almost identical in size shape, and, at $299, price. They also have the same 3.2-megapixel camera, 802.11b/g connectivity, GPS, and the Opera mobile 9.5 web browser.
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A few weeks ago, we reviewed the Samsung NC10 and were just shocked by the amount of battery life it got. We were so surprised that we ran additional tests at different brightnesses just to see how each level affected the system’s endurance.
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