Thread: Arrington on TechCrunch - Wants A Touch Screen Web Tablet Built
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2009-01-19 , 20:07
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Originally Posted by chlettn View Post
I wonder why they didn't choose an ARM-based design. A OMAP3 or similar should be fast enough for just about everything on the internet, and it probably only takes a tiny amount of power compared to the Nano they're using...
Primarily Flash. TechCrunch believe that the tablets are effectively useless since they don't use x86. Nokia can have Flash & battery-life (i.e. ARM) by licencing it from Adobe. TechCrunch's "open source" tablet PC can't do that, so they have to go with x86 for the free plugin.
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