[Arm-netbook] Windows 3G tablets

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:28:58 +0000
"luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

>  actually you stand quite a high chance of everything just...
> "working".  intel atom systems are just like bog-standard PCs, even if
> it's a smaller form-factor with a built-in screen, so what?  so there
> won't be anything particularly proprietary: there's no built-in
> base-band DSP on the intel atom so they have to 3G / phone as a
> separate external modem; that will most likely be done as a Mini PCIe
> 3G.

There will be in the future - Intel bought the tech some time ago (Infineon IIRC - or maybe it was a Nokia unit?).

>  the screen will be standard intel graphics, so you can use the xorg
> VESA driver initially and work out how to use the accelerated xorg
> later, or maybe it will even just auto-detect.

..unless it's one of the models with PowerVR-licensed crap graphics. Better double-check this one, the PowerVR models are just about useless under linux.

- Lauri