Netbooks were the turf of Intel with it’s energy efficient Atom processor beating out the competition. This year, ARM is stepping up to the plate to be the star of the tablet market.
A lot of the slate tablets coming out are going to be using ARM CPUs for their internals. It’s a reasonable choice since [...]

There is a version of Ubuntu which is optimized to work well on netbooks, the Ubuntu Netbook Edition. It’s now been reworked for use of smartbooks that are powered by ARM processors.  One of the problems Ubuntu Developers encountered, is that the interface needs 3D hardware drivers but, this isn’t found on all ARM chipsets [...]

Pioneer Computers in Australia is giving me a bit of deja vu with their new netbook. It’s because their new Dreambook Lite E79 is similar to Haleron’s own 7″ Swordfish. Here’s the spec list.
Dreambook Lite E79

7″ 800 x 480 screen
533MHz Samsung ARM
128MB RAM
2GB flash storage
Windows CE 5.0
802.11b/g WiFi, 3G (optional)
card slot of storage expansion (up [...]

British chip maker ARM’s chief exec Warren East has recently proclaimed that netbooks have the possibility of taking over 90% of the PC market. He added that they will move forward and succeed even without support from Microsoft.
East says that netbooks will be “an area for a lot of innovation and we want that innovation [...]

Here’s something a bit different. Shenzhen Firstview Electronics is a company based in Hong Kong which had a few ARM-based netbooks to show during CES last week.
One of these is the PC810T with the following specs:

10.1″ 1024 x 600 screen
800 MHz ARM11 processor
512MB RAM
Linux OS / Windows CE
2GB flash drive
802.11b/g WiFi
2 x USB ports
VGA and [...]