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HP uses Snapdragon
INTEL IS LIKELY to be mightily miffed after HP announced that it is testing Qualcomm's ARM Cortex based Snapdragon chip for use in a scaled-down PC.
HP is showing the little computer at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week so it is doing more than just testing it.
Up until now Intel has enjoyed almost complete control of the netbook market with its Atom processor. However Snapdragon is getting good reviews and is already heading towards some market breaking smartphones.
Other than the fact that HP has been showing its prototype Snapdragon netbook off at CES there is little else known about the company's plans. It could just be waving the gear around in the hope of getting Chipzilla to panic and offer it a better deal.
According to Qualcomm it has entered into an agreement with HP to design a smartbook based on the Snapdragon. This smartbook will have Google's Android operating system. It looks like it will be based on the Snapdragon QSD8250 chipset with an integrated Scorpion central processing unit. It should manage to run at up to 1GHz with the wind behind it and going downhill. The device will also support high-speed 3G and WiFi wireless connectivity.
Snapdragon chipsets have been designed for PDAs and their big plus is that they can run a mobile phone or small computer for 24 hours on a single battery charge while receiving data throughout the day. µ
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If you're going to be travelling overseas, you may not want to take your expensive MacBook Pro or Sony Vaio laptop, which could get lost, stolen or broken.
Instead, take a long one of these smartbooks. You get the day-long battery life, and if you break it, well, it didn't cost all that much to begin with. The smartbooks are perfect for surfing the web and email.
Erick, please post some info.
RobD, unlucky about not seeing £200 laptops being a good idea, kids and parents love them. They are disposable at that price, £50/year over 4 years is only 15 pence a day.
I would like car-netbook, ;-)
...my personal portable SNES-Mulator for the go
lol
But seriously, smart 'portables' can always use a little more power or a little more batt life. In the end, it might even inspiring new designs (read tablet-like thing for a slash the price of apple's tablet).
And about my 'snesbook', I even hook a xbox360 usb pad on it lol
Try it!
hmmm...snapdragon is already in a few phones. If the platform is going to be used in a netbook, it better be faster the the current offerings.
the fact these go all day without plugging in gives them a market more glutinous notebooks can't compete with. my question for this new smartbook is, will it be locked down like so many phones making it difficult installing linux? I'm sure droid is ok but i'd rather have maemo with iptables and all the other nice tools I've been spoiled with.
I was wrong about netbooks thinking they would not have much of a market due to their low power, etc. Of course in retrospect they seem like a nice little portable PC for those times when all you need to do is surf the web or write a paper or something. For the most part I think netbooks have a huge market as an additional PC, meaning the fact that they run windows and can run word, etc is a huge plus.
Is there really a market for a crappier netbook that is not software compatible with the primary PC, especially when netbooks keep getting a little bit better with each revision of the Atom?