Martin,I'd agree with you in general; however, I'm an Atrix owner, and I really don't see how it can claim to be in any way functionally equivalent to a
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On 5/03/2012 5:22 PM, Martin Visser wrote:
Doesn't a SoC board, with a few USB ports, ethernet, video and audio out, just become a PC with the addition of a USB hub providing fanout to a keyboard, mouse and a bit more storage? Just like the mobile device manufacturers (to wit Motorola with Atrix and Asus with Transformer ) want us to think, the distinct category of "PC" is fast disappearing. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On 2 March 2012 07:57, Edwin Humphries<edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au>wrote:Sorry to be so ignorant, but I haven't heard of the Raspberry Pi before. The posts seems to indicate it as a mini PC; however, it seems to be just a SoC board? NetSense Computers logoRegards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.**com.au<http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au> -- This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete it and notify the sender. -- "/At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness./" Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys "./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the Universe, they invented boredom./" Terry Pratchet, Hogfather "/The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed./" Albert Einstein /"Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories./" Ray Bradbury On 2/03/2012 3:40 AM, Richard Ibbotson wrote:On Thursday 01 March 2012 16:20:15 Geoffrey Cowling wrote:Will Microsoft be able to lock this down?In some ways this is a good question. As far I understand it M$ attempts to lock down the Arm platform in Europe will fail due to EU law. Not allowed to do what they want to do. Might be that under U.S. law they can do something ? Not sure about the latter. Whatever else happens they will certainly use their marketing power to drive out GNU/Linux from the ARM CPU in the way that they did from the Asus EeePC. Only Linux fans will know that Linux exists. In the U.K. the Pi is aimed at the educational market. Which is owned by Microsoft under direction from Whitehall. Say n'more ?...<cough> Winduhs advert... http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=jT3_UCm1A5I<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I> Best winduhs advert out there ;)-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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