Haiku: BeOS Reborn

[Christopher Chan]

Michael Haney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Christopher Chan > Heh. You have not
> yet got into the unfair play yet. I remember when the
>   
>> Athlon64 almost did not get off the ground because Intel made threats to
>> reduce supply of chips to any motherboard manufacturer that dared make
>> boards for the new AMD processor. Good thing Asus got the ball rolling
>> but in the end Intel did enough damage.
>>
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>
> Karma is a bitch, and several companies have been earning a lot of it
> lately ... the bad kind.  The universe will be cashing in its loans
> very soon.  :)
>
> Nvidia is releasing their own netbook CPU called Tegra that runs rings
> around the Intel Atom and Nvidia's own Ion chipset.  Its an ARM based
> CPU, which is fast approaching as the new CPU of choice for netbooks,
> combined with a GPU for faster video processing.  Tegra armed netbook
> prototypes can play DVDs and stream Youtube and Hulu Flash video
> without stuttering and can even handle HD video without lagging.  This
> has attracted a lot of interest towards the ARM architecture.
>
> 3G equipped netbooks using the ARM based 1GHz Snapdragon CPU are
> hitting the market very soon from Qualcomm, Nokia, ASUS, Winstrom and
> Inventec.  Android, Moblin, and Google Chrome OS are the top possible
> contenders for which OS they will come pre-installed with.  So far I
> haven't heard of one netbook manufacturer looking into using Windows
> Mobile, I don't blame them.
>
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If that is the signal of the end of Wintel, then let's hope for that 
combination hitting the desktop too!