Comments on: Nvidia Netbooks: Windows now, Android later

Nvidia's Tegra chip will appear in Windows devices at Computex and phone companies will be in tow. Nvidia is also aiming at Google's Android operating environment for future Netbooks.

[forever4now]

I hope Google & the OHA put some priority on getting Android running on devices based on Tegra (my ideal combination!). I think Tegra will set a new standard for multi-media performance, on these devices and it will put pressure on the other chip companies to try to match them.

[Police_States_of_America]

i hope ubuntu is looking closely at this. Android will start landing these kind of deals because manufacturers know that Google will get good, easy to use apps on its platform

[tm_anon]

Ubuntu already has good, easy to use apps. Android is based off of Linux and is just done differently, meaning those same apps that Google "gets" will be available for every other Linux distro as well.

By the way, there are several good, small, fast distros already available with full screen support and plenty of those apps you were talking about. Google brings advertising due to a name.

Not knocking Google, they do some good work and at least for the moment that work is being done in a very good, open source way that is good for the community, but without the name, would you even know it exists?

[Police_States_of_America]

google puts their money where their mouth is by offering millions of dollars in app contests. ubuntu doesnt do this, that might explain why half the stuff i download for "linux" either doesnt work properly or integrate well into ubuntu. too many bugs for many of the programs offered

[tm_anon]

Funny, everything I've installed on Ubuntu has worked absolutely perfectly, less bugs than anything I ever used on Windows.

Google has money, they use it. Like I said, Google does some good, open source work that is good for the community. I'm not knocking them but there really are good, easy to use apps for Ubuntu and other distros. I'm using it now, I would know.

Now, maybe you could answer the question I asked. If Android wasn't made my Google, would you know about it?

[deantak]

isn't this an embargoed story?

[SlimGem]

"Carriers will decide what software the devices will have."

This will be entertaining.

[t8]

Great news. Android will bring some innovation to the OS market for Netbooks.

[EdmondDantes]

"Carriers will decide what software the devices will have"

This sounds more like threat!!!

Imagine buying a PC and having your Internet provider dictate what software it runs. That has been the perennial master plan from phone companies. Somehow they missed a step in the beginning of the Internet age and now try desperately to regain control. I hope everyone tries their best to subvert this counter-revolution. My question is on which side Android is. Does its open-source nature prevent carriers from transforming it into an inexpensive proprietary platform?

[edentifier2]

"The Internet is all about (Adobe) flash and HD (high-definition) now so we've built a platform that can do that"

Hmmm. Personally, the first thing I do is block Flash, as it is the most misused and annoying way of delivering adverts. The second thing I do is avoid downloading HD content over a 3G connection that would cost me a small fortune in data tarrifs. The last thing I want to do is watch either on a small screen.

HD Movies - well thats what my big TV / my local cinema is for. Working away from the office - either my laptop (it's small, but not a netbook), or a remote desktop via VPN. Making and receiving phone calls - erm, my phone.

Is their really such a market for all this with mobile devices?

Netbooks started out being popular as they were cheap and cheerful, now they are being driven to become... well, cheap laptops; 'Hey, netbooks are great - I can do exactly what I want. But... I would love the graphics to be much better. And higher resolution. And a larger hard drive. And more memory. And a faster processor. And better connectivity. And expandability. And touchscreen capability. Oops, what I really wanted was - a laptop.'

[luke_marsh]

What is the ultimate distruptive software What it always was.
Turing said him self any machine can run any other. Think about that.
What do you want everything you do want in it's own machine running off backend Emulating and direct hardware accessing Machine code optimisation technologies to the bestt that has and can later be coded packaged in a way the you can boot into whatever machine you want from whatever machine you want real easy without any hassle.
Year today Nvidia Notebooks, with windows and later Android plus 23 other OS machines running directly or in virtualisation where wanted such that it is all actually found to be running on someones washing machine, microwave and Fridge in Transputational mode.