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    News - ViewSonic launches Windows tablet and chucks in Android too

    Claiming the world’s first dual-boot ten inch tablet, ViewSonic is claiming the best of both worlds.
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    Re: News - ViewSonic launches Windows tablet and chucks in Android too

    Android on an intel atom ?!

    Would existing android apps work on that?
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    Re: News - ViewSonic launches Windows tablet and chucks in Android too

    Quote Originally Posted by mikerr View Post
    Android on an intel atom ?!

    Would existing android apps work on that?
    Intel demonstrated Android on Atom back in April.
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    Re: News - ViewSonic launches Windows tablet and chucks in Android too

    AFAIK all android apps are written in Java and run on a customised virtual machine, so the underlying hardware platform shouldn't make any difference at all. If Android will run on it, the apps will run on it.
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    Re: News - ViewSonic launches Windows tablet and chucks in Android too

    Yep, and I now find its possible to run it under windows (virtualbox):
    http://www.maggadget.com/try-android-2-1-on-windows/
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