Thread: N9 with an Atom CPU?
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Radu is offline Radu
2011-02-06 , 02:36
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
The entire SoC line of Atoms is based around using the PowerVR core, which has never supported full OpenGL. Not to mention that OpenGL 4 will be compatible with OpenGL ES, so it's a moot issue.
It's not a moot issue at all. A lot of applications use Open GL 1.4 or 2.0, so they won't work if the only OpenGL context provided is 4.0, as they are not backwards compatible.

Having Intel as a supplier and a well known architecture.
ARM is pretty well known in the embedded space, since the vast majority of embedded devices use ARM. And having one supplier instead of multiple ones is not a good thing.

If the power efficiency gains in Medfield are accurate, ARM may be given stiff competition. And MeeGo is a "real" OS. It's not Windows, but it's still a real OS.
I seriously doubt we will see a battery life comparable with a N900 if an Atom SoC is used.

You can't exactly load XP on a Medfield system and have it just work, many of these systems are dropping legacy functionality that older, closed OSes don't support at all. You can still use Wine, though
So long as we can use 'vanilla' Linux, such as Fedora or Ubuntu then it would be nice. Then we can use virtualization (or even wine) to run Win stuff. But I don't consider Meego a "real" OS, it is developed for embedded devices not for desktop. When I think of an OS I think of the applications ecosystem as well, not just the kernel and GNU stuff. Can it run Skype, Flash, Opera, and other closed source applications without specific support from those application developers?