Nufront Dual Core Laptops at CES 2011

If you follow the coverage of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you may conclude that it's all about the most promising iPad competitor or iPad killer as some prefer to call it. Fortunately, there is more to CES 2011 than tablet war.

These 2 videos from Netbooknews and ARMdevices introduce 10" and 14" laptops from Chinese company Nufront. They both run Ubuntu Linux and are powered by a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor. The 10" reference design shown is clocked at 1.6GHz, equipped with 1GB of RAM, and features HDMI output, full-size VGA, two USB ports, and an SD card slot.

With high capacity 6-cell batteries and power consumption improvements of the operating system Sascha from Netbooknews expects a battery life time of 12 to 15 hrs and assumes that the 10" model will cost about US$200. Certainly a device to look forward to, even if it's not a tablet and won't kill the iPad.