http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/ Engadget Comments for Lenovo IdeaPad smartbook appears, powered by Freescale and Pegatron 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/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
heres some more off topic news

noone cares about this laptop!!.. make a google/motorola/verizon/adobe conference live blog already]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
I care about this laptop. Downrank.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/And a well deserved win it was.

Back on topic. If Freescale is not marketing their PowerPC products, who in the world will?]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
But seriously, why would anyone want a cellphone processor in such a humongous device?

The N450 absolutely obliterated the Cortex A8, and is still plenty frugal and inexpensive to manufacture. Here is the N450 benchmarked against the Cortex A8:

"Languishing across all of the JavaScript benchmarks, the ARM Cortex-A8 was only one-third to one-half as fast as the x86 competition. However, this might partially be a result of the very slow memory subsystem that burdened the ARM core.

More troubling is the unacceptably poor double-precision floating-point throughput of the ARM Cortex-A8. While floating-point performance isn’t important to all tasks and is certainly not as important as integer performance, it cannot be ignored if ARM wants its products to successfully migrate upwards into traditional x86-dominated market spaces."]]>Jun 23rd 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
Reduce that by another 20% for a 800mhz A8. OUCH!!!! O_O]]>Jun 23rd 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
Maybe this is wrong now, but I was under the impression that Intel netbooks often still include cooling fans...

This particular smartbook however is disastrously underpowered - A8 is okay for phones but for a netbook? Please. Dual-core A9 uses less power than an Atom CPU core, and ought to be about equally fast depending on what it's doing. Whenever I read a smartbook story I just look at the processor code - A8? Move quickly on.

With the first A9-based smartbook (supposedly) coming out, there should be more soon. A processor as slow as an A8 will only give them a bad name. At least A9 compares to Atoms...]]>Jun 24th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/damn you beat me to it]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/whats in it for me? nothing?

downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!downrank!]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
My experiment is complete! If you tell the people to uprank you, they shall downrank you. If you tell them to downrank you, they shall uprank you!]]>Jun 23rd 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
Hmm... Good question dardub. I shall have to figure this out. I've only ever been first once, but with school out, maybe I will be able to accomplish it.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/new words? hmm
you can find a freescale chip in... basically ... all modern devices...
I guess Intel is a strange new word... too?]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
Same i.MX51 ]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/ubuntu-netbook-edition-1007-demoed-on.html]]>Jun 23rd 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/Jun 23rd 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
Engadget, why haven't you reviewed the Toshiba AC100 yet?]]>Jun 23rd 2010 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
NOOOOOOOO!!!]]>Jun 24th 2010 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lenovo-ideapad-smartbook-appears-powered-by-freescale/
A solid smartbook/tablet offering needs at least Tegra2-level computing power (dual-core Cortex-A9) with fast RAM access to beat Atom based netbooks.

And I wouldn't mind a decent Linux on them like MeeGo or Ubuntu instead of Android.]]>Jun 24th 2010 12:02PM