On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:22 AM, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> There are several changes from B2: >>> ... >>> - use of QMI WLAN module (instead of AzureWave). The WLAN card >> >> The WLAN card in B2 seems to have a better signal than on in the XO-1, >> do you expect any changes with this new card? > > No. I don't expect any changes with the new card. It is the same > chipset, and the layout is better. We are also eliminating a connector > in the antenna path (won't happen till C1.) >
It's great to hear that :) >>> - All have only 512 MB (four memory chips). Due to DRAM prices >>> right now, we will offer this to some customers and need to test it more >>> extensively. >> >> That is unfortunate, the machine works really nice with 1GiB. Hope you >> can keep it for deployments. > > It is hard to tell the difference w. 512 MB. There is a maximum of 12% > slow down in tests that we've run. Still, we consider the XO-1.5 to be > a 1GB machine and view this as a rare variance. > Good to hear that. It's a shame that memory is so expensive right now, I usually track prices through dramexchange.com and it seems it's finally starting to go down again. Keep up the great work. Best regards, Tiago > Cheers, > wad > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
