[TriLUG] Arm Based Laptops Eee pc @ Target

[Brian Phelps]

I apologize in advance for the excessive use of cliches and buzzwords.

I am an embedded systems design engineer and I can't help but wonder
why with the push towards smaller, "ultra low power" laptops we
haven't seen any arm9 or arm11 based laptops.  The chipsets are much
less of a kluge and they are much more efficient per cycle, both in
power usage and in instruction set.  Frequency scaling would be less
critical too, when they are only drawing 3/4 watt.  I have an arm11
based system that I have been working on that is pretty fast, even
compared to my 1.6GHz Intel Dual/o Core.

Instead we get crappy chips in the eee like the intel atom.

Yes I know that plugins like flash are x86 only, but isn't that really
the only drawback?

Combine a transparent display and you have a very low power machine.
.



On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Matt Pusateri
<mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> So I happened by Target on the way home and low and behold they had a
> Asus Eee pc 900 laptop display on the end of one of the isles. It was
> the 900 model for $299, white or black running Linux.
>
> Matt P.
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