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Originally Posted by phenomshel
No, I understood that part, about it being for people who purchased the SmartQ5/Q7; so no apology necessary.
At the time, I was looking at the Always Innovating Touch Book, which would be great except it runs linux and the company has no interest in releasing a windows o/s for it, as far as I can tell from their rant about "We don't really do Windows" on their site. They do say that Windows 7 is a possibility, but it sounds like it'd be in the distant future.
However, after doing some experimenting, I got both MS Reader and Mobipocket Reader to work in WINE - so I guess that opens up devices with Linux as possibilities again.
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I wouldn't count on WINE for non x86 devices, as far as I know WINE for WinCE never got past the initial prototyping stage. Doing an x86 emulation + WINE to run regular windows apps would be too slow for a good experience (even using Transitives dynamic jit style tech). The Cortex A8 is an inorder 13 stage pipeline, without the hardware acceleration you can think of it roughly in the same class as a 600 Mhz Pentium 1 or Atom.
The Touch Book is an arm device and I think that more than anything is why the say they don't do Windows. The best they could do right now is WinCE which isn't what most people are looking for in a netbook.