On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:29:36PM +0100, Vincent Bentley wrote: > Intel are not the only x86 cpu manufacturer. > > I use a lot of VIA Eden equipped devices (thin-clients) 32-bit, 1+ GHz, > 1GB RAM usually. They run fine on 12v batteries charged by solar, have > no problems being mounted in vehicles (land or marine) and are fully > featured with IDE/SATA and network boot ROMs unlike most ARM devices. > >
Just to make another example, there are also a whole bunch of 32 bit Atom netbooks, which were sold up until 2010-2011. I personally used one of those as a primary machine for 2/3 years, and I still keep it around as a perfect "vacation" machine. And there are at least several hundred thousands (maybe more?) OLPC XO and clones out there, shipped to schools and children in developing countries (they had a declared max power consumption of 15W, BTW). I totally agree that we should probably replace all of them with newer and more powerful arm64 laptops, but I don't know whether a similar project is already in place. And there are a whole bunch of SBC things which still use x86 processors. All those machines can run for several more years with a light DE. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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