PC Thoughts

[andrewducker]

Considering the success of Linux laptops like the Eee, how long until someone brings out a non-x86 variant?

Are there processors out there that would be as faster, cheaper and more power-efficient?

Comments

[martling.livejournal.com]

You can't watch YouTube on your phone either for the same reason. Sooner or later either Flash or YouTube is going to want to fix that.

[andrewducker]

Very true. Although Flash Lite does support video.

Checking around, it looks like Flash has now been open-sourced, so it's very likely that it'll be compiling on other architectures in the near future...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Flash Lite 3 is really a stop gap. A good one, but it's only Flash 7...

My money is on AIR 2 (which will be mobile and is built on webkit). Interestingly it looks like MS are bypassing the mobile version of Silverlight 1 in favour of Silverlight 2, and that will run on multiple mobile OSes..

Mobile RIAs FTW!

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

There is a mobile version of YouTube that delivers everything using H.264 - it was initially developed for the iPhone, but works well on other next-gen mobile devices like the Backberry Bold.

[andrewducker]

Good point.

And avoiding FLV would be nice...