[Arm-netbook] linus torvalds says "2016 is the year of the arm laptop"

joem joem at martindale-electric.co.uk
Tue Oct 13 21:56:05 BST 2015


> > On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 22:40 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/10/09/1838249/linus-2016-will-be-the-year-of-the-arm-laptop
> >>
> >> surpriiiise!
> >
> > Wonder who's going to release 2560x1600 displays for arm Laptops.
> > As far as I can tell, that is probably the only thing holding ARM
> > laptops back from taking off.

>  i'd guess that 983mbytes/sec would utterly overwhelm most ARM
> processors internal memory bus architectures.... and that's just for
> refreshing the display - it's not even for *updating* it.

I have 8" and 10" ARM phablets with that resolution display
and I'm sure there must be some youtube out there of similar
devices.

They are very responsive and eminently suitable for laptop
version. Just not sure why such displays are not being
used on Laptop version devices.




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