[TriLUG] Arm Based Laptops Eee pc @ Target

[Justis Peters]

Thanks for the link, Matt. Also relevant to this thread, I saw the
following in the "related stories" on the same page. It's an index page,
linking to all the Linux nettops that they've reviewed:
  http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5050455510.html

Kind regards,
Justis

Matt Pusateri wrote:
> Whether or not this will come to pass or not remains to be seen.
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> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9920811500.html?kc=rss
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> On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Brian Phelps wrote:
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>> 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.
>> .
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>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Matt Pusateri
>> <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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