Qualcomm shows off its first snapdragon smartbook (Lenovo Smartbook)
It is soon going to be very puzzling as myriad of smartbooks are going to hit the horizon very soon. From outside, both netbooks and smartbooks look the same, but from inside, they run on totally different processors. Couple of days back, Qualcomm unveiled a smartbook that will be sold by Lenovo under AT&T.
Lenovo is just one of the many OEMs and netbook vendors who will be rolling out smartbooks. Many other will follow their suit soon. It is surely going to be very interesting to see the reaction of the consumers as these smartbooks won’t be able to run their favorite desktop apps. People buy netbooks because they perceive them as nothing but tiny laptop computers that run Windows XP/7, thus giving them the ability to run their desktop apps on it.
Most of the smartbooks won’t be x86 compatible and will feature processors based on ARM-infrastructure. One of them is the Snapdragon manufactured by Qualcomm that runs at 1GHz clock speed. This has been featured in many windows phones already including HTC TOUCH HD 2 and Toshiba TG01. Both of the phones have been found to be very speedy, but is it enough for a pleasant experience on a netbook? That is something we would like to see.
[via Engadget]
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