geeky updates » Freescale http://sergeyvlasov.com spontaneous posts about computers, internet and the life Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Freescale’s chip drives netbooks cheap http://sergeyvlasov.com/freescale-powered-netbooks http://sergeyvlasov.com/freescale-powered-netbooks#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:19:49 +0000 sergey http://sergeyvlasov.com/?p=370 PCWorld, cNet, Yahoo!Tech, Engadget are all rumoring about a fresh Intel’s Atom rival product Freescale’s i.MX515 chip. It is expected to be announced soon, as well as exposed at CES.

The chip promises to be cheaper and less battery consuming. There are hopes it would allow Freescale powered netbooks priced below “magical” $199 and batteries to run wooping 8 hours until depleted.

There is a catch, however. ARM archtechture, doesn’t support Windows at all. So the netbooks run by such processors are “doomed” to run Linux.

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