http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/ Engadget Comments for Members abandoning Intel's MID alliance? Hopefully. 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/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/What isn't shopped these days?]]>Nov 30th 2009 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/
The ship is HMS Antelope which was sunk during the Falklands Conflict and involved loss of life! Bit of a bad choice on Engadets part if you ask me!]]>Nov 30th 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/
Oh come on. Who cares. This is just political correctness gone mad.]]>Nov 30th 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/
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But seriously, isn't this just any smartphone on the market today? There is not THAT much a leap between an iPhone/Droid/Palm/etc internet and a netbook's internet.

There is no market for something between a smartphone and a netbook unless the thing was priced for under $50...otherwise you could get an iPhone 3G or Pixi or what have you for $99. There is no demographic to buy a MID device, period.

...but I still like cookies.]]>Nov 30th 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/
I doubt MIDs (or smartbooks) will ever take off. The combination of a smartphone which goes with you everywhere, and a netbook that can go just about everywhere else, is what works for most people.

MIDs and smartbooks are niche products, because MIDs don't have the display real estate that people need, and smartbooks not running a full OS, be it Windows or Linux, are kind of pointless.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Well at least Kazakhstan is still staying the course. There may still be hope for the MID East's war on our wallets.]]>Nov 30th 2009 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/
You pretty much described what a netbook is. And, yes, it is proven that netbooks sell. :-/


Netbook > MID > Smartphone.]]>Nov 30th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/
For example: The ARM Cortex A9 has comparable processing power to the new Atom line but consumes fraction of the energy. The new gen Tegra will be based on this architecture too.

In the MID/smartbook category, it makes much more sense to use ARM at the moment, especially if you want to ship with Linux and want to sell around 200$ (that mostly guarantees volume shipments).
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I guess the next big consortium/alliance/company that goes under we will see an image of one of the world trade towers collapsing attached to engadgets reporting.]]>Nov 30th 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/members-abandoning-intels-mid-alliance-hopefully/Nov 30th 2009 12:25PM