The Android Netbook from Asus: Will it break the Ice?
By James • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: NetbooksThe netbook market has started taking a different approach. It has started striving more towards lowering the costs involved, with the manufacturers taking a good look at the operating systems that are beyond the conventional Linux and are operated by internet enabled smartphones. It does not come as a surprise in the midst of all this that ASUS is also venturing into netbooks that are Android enabled. The company has announced that such a strategy has been put into implementation and will possibly be yielding results by the end of the year. The netbook is touted to be best for ARM processors.
The Android operating system is made to work on ARM processors with the net performance rate being very low, somewhere around 200MHz. This will help netbooks that use Intel Atom processors, like the Asus Eee PC 904 HA, to successfully run Windows applications. Another fact behind the endorsement of this strategy is that the Android OS based on Linux does not demand a processing fee; whereas its Microsoft counterparts do. This would help in drastically bringing down the costs and also lowering the price for the end consumer. Time will tell whether Android will be used as a netbook platform as often as Ubuntu Linux or Windows currently are.
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