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Originally Posted by Dhomochevsky
They could run a virtual x86 on the ARM architecture.
Would be slow as hell I guess...  |
I don't think that'd even run. People may get blinded by the shiny "dual-core" and
"quad-core" smartphones coming out these days, but the fact of the matter is the lowest Intel Atom CPU in the cheapest netbook is more powerful than the most bleeding-edge smartphone or tablet.
You don't notice it because the OSes aren't heavy (though Android is much heavier than its competitors) and things are optimized for smoothness. Nobody thinks an Atom netbook is an especially gratifying computing experience, especially if the netbook runs Windows 7...
... but if you slap a 32-bit Xubuntu ISO on a flash drive and install it on the same netbook, you'd be surprised how much smoother everything runs.