Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > Alain Williams writes: > >> I wonder where they got the idea from: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38515472 >> >>

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Alain Williams
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 07:17:32PM +0100, Phil Hands wrote: > Alain Williams writes: > > > I wonder where they got the idea from: > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38515472 > > > > http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/compute-card/intel-compute-card.html > >

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Julie Marchant wrote: > That could be a problem. If it's successful, people will associate the > concept with Intel and assume that eoma is a cheap ripoff. Also, with

[Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Alain Williams
I wonder where they got the idea from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38515472 http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/compute-card/intel-compute-card.html -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Jonathan Frederickson
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > which are, in your opinion, the "right set of interfaces"? serious > question. if you're going to make such comments, you'd better be > prepared to back them up and be prepared to justify them with a >

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Philip Hands
Alain Williams writes: > I wonder where they got the idea from: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38515472 > > http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/compute-card/intel-compute-card.html That's _very_ light on details, and I note that they're careful not to show the

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread peter green
On 05/01/17 18:50, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Why would they want to cripple their product by restricting themselves to the set of interfaces Luke has chosen. ?? peter!! Intel operates under a totally different set of constraints from Luke. If Luke wants to make a successor to his

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:40 PM, peter green wrote: > On 05/01/17 18:50, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> >>> Why would they want to cripple their product by restricting themselves to >>> the

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Jonathan Frederickson wrote: > It's a shame that none of the previous EOMA-68 devices got off the > ground before Intel pulled this out - that's what i

[Arm-netbook] Mini-PCIe and other interfaces (was Re: Intel at CES)

2017-01-05 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 5. January 2017 22.30.42 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Alain Williams wrote: > > About 30 seconds in on the BBC video you get a quick view of

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Boris Barbour
I don't think the Intel announcement is bad news. Firstly it validates/builds recognition of the general idea, which may be helpful in some quarters. Second, there are plenty of people that will want the cheap, low power version, which means ARM. Intel can't do that. And they hate really pushing

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread raphael . melotte
On January 5, 2017 6:38:10 PM GMT+01:00, Alain Williams wrote: >I wonder where they got the idea from: > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38515472 > >http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/compute-card/intel-compute-card.html It's astonishing... there are so many