http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/ Engadget Comments for Gartner: Android on ARM "more snappy" than Windows 7 on Atom http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 16th 2009 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Media making news out of no news.]]>Jun 15th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/
"When this car works... it will get you to the supermarket faster than that other car. Oh, but when it doesn't... you'll just have to walk." lol]]>Jun 15th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/
All most poeple use netbooks for is browsing the web and email and Android can do that fine. You may not want an Android computer but I don't see why you need to PLEAD for them not to make one. If you don't want one simply don't buy one.

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Manufacturers of ARM CPU netbooks need to look somewhere for an OS. So far, on the Atom platform, people much prefer Windows XP to custom Linux builds (and of course to Vista). Windows for ARM is not a possibility, so it's natural to turn to something like Android, which has the backing of Google.

The main point here (whether or not it matters in the end) is that MS has been having serious problems scaling their OS (which is the reason Vista was such a disaster, the reason they lied about minimum system requirements on behalf of Intel, etc.). If Windows 7 doesn't perform well on Atom netbooks and there's a much cheaper alternative that has a decent OS and a decent browser with a decent selection of applications, then that's kind of significant.

I'm still waiting for Android to have much of a selling point outside of phones, so we'll see what happens.]]>Jun 15th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/
The mass market wants low cost machines that do everything (this will be the only computer for most homes) in a way they know. As the mass market knows Windows, that is what they want hence why so many Linux based EEE PC's were returned in exchange for the XP version.

The mass market can take the performance hit that comes with Windows over Android, Linux etc.. They are a patient bunch unlike the minority (us)!

I personally have an IBM X31 with Windows 7 Ultimate RC on it and it performs beautifully so I am sure the cut down versions of Windows 7 will perform well on most netbooks.

Shoot me down for saying this if you want but here is my prediction

We never see Android on a Netbook that sells well.
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But look at it in a slightly different way. Think of it as an android smart phone with a built in keyboard that you can use with more than your thumbs, and a bigger screen that you can use for more stuff that would be just too fiddly for use on a phone. . Doesn't have to be Windows compatible, doesn't have to have a huge software library, although the Android phone apps should be ok on this.

It's just one class of devices in a whole palette of options. It's ok if they don't all do the same things. Diversity is good. And there will be many many people who just want light note taking and surfing abilities with a little bit of PIM and a few casual games thrown in. I can see a lot of potential for such things. ]]>Jun 15th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/How bout "formula 1 cars go better on closed, wide circuits, than VW wagons on rally trails".
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But still, I think that smartbook manufacturers will have a hard time convincing people to buy their devices considering that Linux netbooks haven't been much of a success despite lower prices than their Windows counterparts, and smartbooks are even more different from what people are used to (=Windows)]]>Jun 15th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/
Windows 7 Starter is going to be on every netbook by the end of 2009 ... let me rephrase that ... "every netbook that people will actually buy and want."

Although i'm sure Palm is going to scale Web o/s to a netbook so who knows .... Palm got it's geek cred back and is now #2 in "mindshare" behind the iCrapPhone. Their Web O/S netbook will probably be a minor sucess. But Android? not going to happen.]]>Jun 15th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/android should be compared with windows mobile not windows 7]]>Jun 15th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/"Looks like the market finds Android in smartbooks as a viable solution to the MS problem in netbooks. I'm all for it."

MS problem? What MS problem?]]>Jun 15th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/microsoft-publishes-maximum-windows-7-netbooks-specs/]]>Jun 15th 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/
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1. data contracts.
2. phone calls & SMS/MMS.
3. app purchases (e.g. operators get a cut from Android Market app sales).
4. value-added apps & services that leverage the capabilities of these "smartphone-like" devices.

Much like smartphones, Android-based smartbooks/netbooks are likely to usher in the era of inexpensive/free computing devices, in exchange for always-on, wireless data subscriptions.]]>Jun 15th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Jun 15th 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/
(that saved a wretch like me)

I once was lost but now I'm found,

Was Blind, but Now I SEEEEEEEEEEE.

iPhone 3G S is coming soon to a pocket near me.

JoeL
Atlanta]]>Jun 15th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/gartner-android-on-arm-more-snappy-than-windows-7-on-atom/Google will soon launch a Android 2.0, optimized for ARM, with support for multi-touch, built-in Chrome and other google baddies (= erstwhile goodies), and offer it on a platter to ODMs in Taiwan. Meanwhile Wintel will up the ante, although with Intel's recent interest in Windriver, there are reasons to believe that the L word is moving closer to the Atom. Will it be the ARMs race or the Atom bomb that will win? IMO, this will be decided largely by the ODMs - they will play the king maker, although the battle between ARM and Atom will likely stretch for no less than another year or so....]]>Jun 15th 2009 11:10PM