My perfect ARM Smartbook

I've been spending a fair amount of time thinking about the new netbooks based on the ARM processor instead of an Intel Pentium processor. Most netbooks are based on either an Intel Atom processor or the Celeron processor. A switch to the ARM processor is interesting because its low power usage means longer battery life (8 hours, opposed to the 3-4 hours with current netbooks).

The downside of the ARM processor is the fact that traditional Windows is not a potential O/S to run on this processor. ARM processors have been used in PDAs and the processor of choice for those PDAs was Windows CE or Windows Mobile, which was a special version of Windows designed for the PDA market.

The netbooks designed with the ARM chip are supposed to be called smartbooks due to their low power consumption--they're smart because they use energy more wisely.

So, how would you design a netbook that would be small and something that you might take everywhere:

Here are my list of features:

1. Fast startup: the ARM smartbook should boot very quickly. Granted, you might be able to get away with having a smartbook just wakeup from sleep when you "turn it on", but a reset should be relatively quick also.
2. Light weight: the total package should be as light as possible for the form factor that you choose (ie screen size).
3. Very easy and intuitive to use: since it won't use the standard Windows interface, it should be easy to launch applications and they need to just work.
4. Web browser: Likely to be Firefox, but other web browsers like Chromium (Google) would be welcome.
5. Flash plugin for web browser: If you wish to view YouTube, Hulu, and other video sites, flash is a gotta-have feature.
6. Media players: images, audio, video, etc.
7. Simple office tools (word processing, spreadsheet, etc.) are nice to have.
8. Wireless configuration needs to be as painless as possible. This is something that Microsoft Windows needs to improve. Many of the Linux wireless tools are not all that easy. Most users should only have to configure a siteID once and have that configuration used when you return to that wireless hotspot. If you go to a spot where the wireless doesn't recognize an ESSIDs, then it should prompt you for configuration and walk you through it.
9. Tools for social networks, including:

• MySpace
• Facebook
• Twitter
• etc.

Disclaimer: although I do work for a hardware company, I have no affiliation with any work on laptops, netbooks, or any client systems. My recommendations for this occur without any inside knowledge of any forthcoming products. My preferences in this area are not slanted towards any netbook/smartbook manufacturer.