Okay, I’ll admit that I’m a tad obsessed with Ubuntu on ARM, hence spending the past few hours scouring Twitter and YouTube for any related tidbits from the recent CES event.
My hounding paid off as I came across this YouTube video showcasing a new 14-inch dual-core Cortex-A9 (2GHz) laptop running our favourite OS, made by a company I’ve never heard of: Nufront.
Check out the video on YouTube or click play on the embed below:
In my personal reading of the proverbial tea leaves it seems Mark Shuttleworth is on a bold mission at CES, buoyed by the Ubuntu and Linaro efforts, to help position Ubuntu as the logical choice for ARM, be it on consumer laptops or industrial-use embedded devices.
And I think it’s Ubuntu’s bullish positioning around the platform that Microsoft felt pressured to announce (rather awkwardly) that Windows 8 will run on ARM, even if not very well.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Nufront laptop showcased at CES makes it in the mainstream, and if it does how Microsoft may respond…