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And if you remember the CeBIT where ASus abortively introduced an ARM based laptop you got to see the who ecosystem in action. I wish the full details of that came out but the scuttlebutt was that Microsoft threatened to cut off Asus completely if they shipped it. They were already pissed that the EeePC's had a Linux distro that was easy enough for windows users to use but couldn't really put Vista on them, their re-issue of XP to support those machines was pretty notable.


But Asus has a whole line of what are effectively ARM based laptops:

The Asus Transformer series of "tablets" + keyboard dock. Sure, they're shipped with Android, but you can install Ubuntu on them.


Yes, they do now and they run Android. But at CeBit in 2008 when they were doing a follow on to the EeePC 900 there was no Android.




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