[ Thanks to Andras
Soltesz for this link. ]
“The AC100 smartbook, recently announced by Toshiba,
has some intriguing features, worth to blog about. First of all, it
is built around Nvidia’s Tegra2 system-on-chip (SOC). The Tegra2 is
a powerful, ARM SOC with two generic application processing cores
and integrated media cores (AV decoding/encoding…etc). The
AC100 is the most promising netbook form-factor machine with Tegra2
to date. (Of course there are a lot of Tegra2 based systems
announced, but those are mostly tablets). Smartbooks already on the
market (HP Airlife, Sharp Netwalker), suffer from lack of
performance (due to a combination of underpowered, single-core,
Cortex A8-level SOCs and/or slow RAM) and are not considered as
breakthrough products (at least not in the blogosphere).“The AC100 has a chance to be a successful product in the
netbook/smartbook category.”