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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. Best option for OLPC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple - get them locked in and keep the cash flowing. All these open OS's are bad for business i say!
    Give them an Apple, they'll never get out! We can keep them down!

    1. Re:Best option for OLPC by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Troll

      The truth hurts. Doesn't it?

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    2. Re:Best option for OLPC by RocketRabbit · · Score: 0, Troll

      In this context it is impossible to say, because Apple actually makes their own Free and open source OS, and gives it away to anybody who wants it.

      It'll be fun to see how ugly, slow, and choppy Android is on a bigger screen though. I was actually shocked to discover how awful it really is.

  2. "Sweet eye candy" by qoncept · · Score: 0, Troll

    sweet eye candy of Android to x86

    Really? Some of the themes for rooted Android phones are a step up and the UI is effective, but Android's default look is hardly "sweet eye candy." I submit that new even Blackberries have a "prettier" UI than Android.

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