Transmeta is (well, wants to be) in the microprocessor business. They'll sell to anyone who can pay for their chips.
The webpad and other "internet appliances" may be cool, but I'm not sure how much advantage they got over a laptop, a keyboard is nice to have too. Otherwise how would we post all these speculative messages? (oops, there's always voice and handwriting recognition, but you still got to edit). Plus, the bottom part holds the screen up for you on a laptop, a screen on your lap isn't quite the right angle.
As for the linux angle, I'm confused as to what advantage an x86 emulation, however elegant, has for running linux. It's the open source world, you run gcc, you recompile your apps, you can run a cross compiler easily enough even. Most people want x86 to run Windows software, whether we like it or not. Ok, there's wine, I haven't kept up with that.
Cheers, Dan. |
