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Intel Porting Android To x86 For Netbooks and Tablets

Posted by timothy on from the which-dessert-will-you-have? dept.

According to Liliputing, Intel is bringing the sweet eye candy of Android to x86, which — if all goes well — means it will land on (more) netbooks and tablets soon. I'm more excited about ARM-based tablets, for their current advantage in battery life, but the more the merrier, when it comes to breaking up the tight circle of OSes available for any given arbitrary class of computing devices. Given all the OS swings that the OLPC project has gone through, maybe it should be thinking of Android, too.

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  1. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    flamebait ... really?

    Pointing out that a lack of competition is bad for consumers is .... flamebait .... wow

  2. Re:What power advantage? by dfghjk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just because you don't need a "full computer" often doesn't mean the lame excuse for one you've substituted is a "laptop". I have an ARM processor in my phone but that doesn't mean ARM is suitable for a laptop either.

    I expect my laptop to run my laptop software. ARM doesn't do any of that.