Nvidia: For smartbooks, Windows CE beats Android

From Computerworld -

Mike Rayfield, Nvidia's mobile business unit GM, said his company preferred Windows CE over Android because of the latter's maturity. For smartbooks, Nvidia is working with Microsoft to optimize Windows CE when it runs on Tegra, Nvidia's System-on-Chip (SoC) for ARM hardware. Windows CE devices will be able to offload much of the heavy multimedia work onto Tegra, resulting in better performance, 1080p video, and low power usage.

Nvidia chose to work with Windows CE first because it is a rock-solid operating system that has been shipped billions of times, aside from having a low memory footprint and a good collection of apps. But it is also working with Google to accelerate Android, which is based on Linux, when running on Tegra hardware. But it will be about a year before that delivers for smartbooks, due to existing limitations in Android such as video and graphics rendering being done in Java without hardware acceleration.

Windows CE for Acer Aspire One/Lenovo IdeaPad S9

Submitted by Brad Linder -

While there's been talk of the 3k Razorbook/Skytone Alpha 400 running Windows CE, this is the first time I've heard of a company trying to bring it to mainstream netbooks like the Acer Aspire One and Lenovo IdeaPad S9.

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