Intel's x86 chip will power 6-8 Android devices this year - Phone Arena

Intel's x86 chip will power 6-8 Android devices this year - Phone Arena: "Notebook makers are claiming that Intel is planning on combining their x86 chipset with the Android operating system. Particularly as Microsoft has decided to use ARM platforms, Intel's cooperation is fitting, even though they have their own MeeGo OS.

Several Taiwan notebook makers, including Inventec and Compal Electronics, say that the Intel x86-powered Android devices could be announced as soon as April. That announcement would likely take place at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, April 12-13. If they can't be ready by then, they're expected at the Computex Taipei conference later in the year.

If Intel does in fact use Android with their processors, it could mean a tremendous cost-savings for the end user. Without licensing fees, those Taiwanese notebooks could offer competitive alternatives to Windows-based netbooks and other mobile OS tablets.

The sources propose that these new partnerships, which are a departure from the traditional Wintel (Windows + Intel) market, will improve the overall health of the PC ecosystem. Of course, in addition to an Intel/Android notebook, we're looking forward to more of their Intel/Chrome OS solutions expected around mid-2011."

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Get an HP Pavilion dm1z ultraportable for $419.99 | The Cheapskate - CNET News

Get an HP Pavilion dm1z ultraportable for $419.99 | The Cheapskate - CNET News: "Laptops and coach seats don't mix. I was reminded of this the other day while trying to contort myself in strange and painful ways at 33,000 feet. Never again. A netbook would have been a much better fit, but I find most models too small for my tastes--and too underpowered as well.

Where's the happy medium? Right here: HP has the Pavilion dm1z ultraportable laptop for $419.99 shipped (after applying coupon code SAVE30HP). That's a total savings of $130.

The dm1z may look like a netbook, what with its 11.6-inch screen, absent optical drive, and overall compactness, but, brother, it ain't no netbook."

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Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook Hacked to Run Ubuntu Linux - Softpedia

Without a doubt, Google's Chrome OS notebook, dubbed Cr-48, has been one of the hottest arrivals of late 2010, as it offered the world a glimpse at what Google's brand-new operating system for notebooks/netbooks would be able to offer, as well as the level of performance we are to expect from these machines.

However, it seems that the portable computing system has also drawn the attention of hackers, since, as GizInChina reports, the Cr-48 has already been hacked in order to run another free, open-source operating system (and perhaps the best-known of them all), namely Ubuntu Linux.

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