Re: Future hardware options

2008-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 20 March 2008 23:13:59 Andy Green wrote: Agreed here... the main constraint will be that if we want the display active, we need to have the main CPU up to generate the video. But I am hoping we will be able to pretty strongly in most cases have the CPU power acting in sync to the

Future hardware options

2008-03-20 Thread Dale Schumacher
I believe that a low-power-use auxiliary processor would be EXTREMELY valuable. There are LOTS of things that could run on a slower lower-powered processor, greatly extending battery life. At any time the high-speed high-power-use main processor can be fired up to handle the real heavy lifting.

Re: Future hardware options

2008-03-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: I believe that a low-power-use auxiliary processor would be EXTREMELY valuable. There are LOTS of things that could run on a slower lower-powered processor, greatly extending battery life. At any time