Some experts reported that smartbooks can repeat or even exceed the commercial success of netbook, explosive increase in this market segment we do not observe. Smartbooks are based on ARM- architecture processor.
The only important company, which supported in the beginning of this year the idea of smartbook release, proved to be Lenovo. Other proposals in this sphere proceeded predominantly from small producers. Originally, it was planned, that lenovo skylight will use a specially adapted version of operating system Linux. Unfortunately, the price of the device is $499.
Associates report that Lenovo decided to put off for a later period the announcement of smartbook skylight and hybrid netbook ideaPad U1. The reason for announcement delay: Lenovo wants to add in these devices the operating system google android, but not older Linux version.