There's a lot of talk that Nokia should release a Maemo netbook. Is there a working port of Maemo to Intel-based chips? I only know of the ARM version for the tablets.<br><br>This was partially mentioned above, but I don't think enough weight has been given to the fact that Nokia has just within the past three months announced major partnerships with both Intel and Microsoft. I don't see it as surprising that a corporate-focused booklet would choose this platform.<br>
<br>And remember, the N900 is coming out. The OS/2 comparison is interesting, and it may well be that Maemo stays firmly in the "hobbyist" arena. But i think we will see Maemo take a bigger role as the laptop and phone continue to merge into a new hybrid device (of which netbooks and internet tablets are early forays into this class of device.<br>
<br>K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Gary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@eyetraxx.net">gary@eyetraxx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Antonio Di Cello wrote:<br>
> For italian maemo/nokia user I post on my blog the news ad the specifications of new booklet3G<br>
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</div>The Guardian has more speculation on the hardware specs.<br>
<a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sXsDARYcytKh_ev4Q2pP53Q/view.m?id=158147&tid=120787" target="_blank">http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sXsDARYcytKh_ev4Q2pP53Q/view.m?id=158147&tid=120787</a><br>
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My guess is that they're trying to get some attention before Apple<br>
releases their touch screen tablet. I have used WIndows 7 extensively on<br>
a seven year old notebook which is about on par with most current net<br>
books (aside from the larger screen). It is much more usable than Vista<br>
was on the same system but I still prefer to boot in to U-lite -- a<br>
custom Ubuntu distribution that runs better on less powerful hardware<br>
than any of the official Ubuntu spin-offs. Aside from that, there are<br>
plenty of other distributions that Nokia could have chosen as there have<br>
been several window manager and desktop projects over the years that<br>
sufficiently emulate the Windows look and feel to ease users in to the<br>
UI. The OS/2 vs Windows comparison is an interesting one. Maybe Nokia<br>
will hire David Cutler to help finish freemantle. ;)<br>
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