Guy Puts Ice Cream Sandwich on His Laptop–the OS, Not the Dessert - mcleandentelf1969

Android seems to be everywhere these days. While we're still eagerly awaiting for IT to appear on toasters (and toaster-fridges), at least we now rich person information technology running on full-fledged laptops.

YouTube user leemgs has posted a video of Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) linear on their Samsung R60+ laptop. They say they've spent their spare time in the past month OR so porting ICS to x86 because Android's battery stomach is bettor than that provided aside Windows and alive Linux distributions. It looks like a shockingly pleasant laptop surroundings.

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Most Humanoid games seem to run fine happening this modded laptop computer, so if you've ever wanted to play Angry Birds Distance connected a twist large than your telephone set without shelling out for an iPad or a Kindle Fire, now's your unplanned.

This isn't the first time Android has been seen running on x86 hardware–android-x86.org hosts an manifestly fairly active porting effort, including a release candidate version of Android ICS released in February. That group's original motivation was to get Android running along Asus EeePCs and other netbooks. Providing a large and more touch-friendly user interface major-suited to devices with small screens is also one of the goals of Ubuntu's new Unity interface jut, at one time part of Ubuntu Netbook Remix edition.

Is the old-style desktop exit to stick around? Or is your next laptop computer going to come pre-installed with Mechanical man? Only time will tell.

[YouTube via AndroidDev on Twitter]

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