On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How close are we to a 100% free-design multimedia PC platform now? > > You could make a "big" communicating PDA, if you could put a SUN Niagara > cpu with OGD1 inside on an asic (~500Mhz design completly maid for > consumption), with 1Go DRAM, 1 Go FLASH, USB, bluetooth, WiMAX, > GSM900/1800/..., Wifi. >
Why use Sparc? It's lagging seriously in the performance stakes. If you want portable, use either PowerPC or Arm. If you want performance, use PowerPC. If you want cheap, probably AMD (AMD has memory controller onboard as well, which effectively elimiantes the northbridge controller in the chipset). > You could make a truly portable computer : 10h of power on, less than 1 kg > (including the usualy enormous power supply !), 14" (12" is too small to > work). > > I know some Nokia 770 user : they find it nice but unuseable. Agreed. I have one. Too slow. Nice box though. More CPU and it'd be what I wish the Zaurus had morphed into... Sadly that has CPU and no network (Builtin). _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
