The demand for cheap netbooks shows an increasing tendency, as while on the road such a device, which is compact, has a long uptime and can be used for browsing, emailing and handling multimedia files and documents, is more than enough. Most netbooks nowadays run Linux or Windows XP, but the i-Buddie prototype runs Android on an Intel Atom CPU. This solution is really interesting, but a serious setback of the system is that applications written for the mobile phone version of Android won't run on the netbook - or more like internet tablet, as the Intel Atom and ARM processors are binary incompatible with each other.
Translated by Szaszati
