The plans of vendors ARM-laptops

A number of manufacturers of computer equipment, such as Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Acer and Asustek Computer, are developing laptops that will be based on processors with ARM-architecture. With the first commercial samples may occur before the end of this year. It is worth noting that this is not the first attempt to bring such devices to market. Two years ago, Toshiba and Lenovo have already reported models on the market of portable computers, which were based on ARM-chip and runs on Android. Then they were called smartbooks, but because of various shortcomings and poor performance, they found no particular demand and to continue the series followed. Over the past two years, ARM-processors have advanced significantly in its development, when in 2009 they were only single core, it is now already offers quad-core solutions. Also changed the available memory and Android operating system itself has become far more sophisticated software. So the producers thought that might try to market a very competitive offering of ARM-processor and the classical form factor notebook. On their side will be relatively low cost, with performance comparable to conventional netbooks, as well as more long battery life. We already know that ASUS has very specific plans to release this year, 13-inch laptop on the platform from Nvidia and the operating system Android. When exactly will follow the proposals of other companies - not known, but reported that the solutions for ARM-notebooks may be offered in addition to Nvidia and more companies Qualocmm and Texas Instruments. Their families Snapdragon processors and OMAP quite correspond to the required level of performance, and will produce a device costing less than $ 300.