Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 9/18/09 wrote:

>Sure, they are not identical. But being able to design an OoO core that is significantly
>faster while using half the power of an Atom is pretty amazing in my book.
>It will force Intel to introduce competitive designs in this space unless they prefer ARM taking over their low-end.

Would a Cortex A9 netbook be cheaper than an identically configured netbook that uses an Atom SoC (and comes with Linux instead of MS)?
Since ARM can't run MS software and the power advantage gets dilluted when you look at the whole netbook, ARM netbooks would have to be somewhat cheaper than identical x86 netbooks at least initially.
But I would surely love to see ARM attacking Intel's low-end.