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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
I don't know the differences, so pardon me. But would the Atom netbook builds be able to run on my budget desktop hardware, or does ATOM have inherent architectural differences that make it necessary? I assumed MeeGo would run on all x86 hardware, but what do I know?
Run, yes, probably. (While it's possible it's got Atom optimizations without fallbacks, I can't imagine actually doing it at this stage -- ability for more people to tinker with it would seem to trump the very slight performance edge.) But drivers might be missing for, e.g., video and network adapters; the Atom netbook platform is remarkably uniform in the wild, and presumably the Moorestowne devices (have any shipped? AFAIK only prototypes...) are even closer.