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SPOTTED: Linux notebooks with ARM CPUs

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“The PC industry really has three categories today; we have the
desktop, the notebook, and the netbook computer. According to
Freescale and Qualcomm a new term is needed to describe some of the
Linux-based machines that use ARM hardware shown at Computex.

“The term that the duo is using for its ARM/Linux portables are
Smartbooks. Compared to a netbook the smartbook will be cheaper,
smaller, and have a longer battery life than the netbooks so
popular with consumers today. Some of the machines spotted at
Computex were running Linux-based Google Android.”


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