Dell Uses ARM Processor In X86 Laptop

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Submitted by chrb on Friday October 02, 2009 @11:43AM

chrb writes "Dell's new Latitude Z laptop includes an unusual feature — an ARM processor, alledgedly codenamed BlackTop which runs a modified version of Suse Linux, and is capable of near-instant bootup. Dell's research has apparently found that some early users spend 70% of their time in the Linux environment."

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