On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 01:16:04AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I bought one of these little computers: > <http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msca/en_CA/pdp/InFocus-Kangaroo-Signature-Edition-Mobile-Desktop/productID.328660500> > If you are a student you an get 10% off of the $149. > > I bought mine at newegg for $130 but the price changes regularly. > > I'm typing this from a live Fedora stick on this processor. The screen is > 3840x2160@30 -- the best mode for this display and pretty good for an > Atom. > > The CPU is an Intel Atom x5-z8500. I don't really understand the naming > scheme. > > Scott pointed out that the Intel specs for this processor don't mention > the VT-I feature. That scared me. > <http://ark.intel.com/products/85474/Intel-Atom-x5-Z8500-Processor-2M-Cache-up-to-2_24-GHz>
It doesn't say it doesn't have it. I know one atom processor that intel explicitly lists as NOT supporting 64bit mode, yet every one I have ever seen of those chips does do 64bit. Very annoying. > Here are the flags from /proc/cpuinfo: > > fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat > pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx > rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology > nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 > ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes > rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch ida arat epb dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi > flexpriority ept vpid tsc_adjust smep erm > > As I understand it, vmx means it supports VT-I. Some of the other > flags have to do with virtualization too. > > BTW, note that it supports AES-NI, something that the Haswell Celeron > and Pentium don't do. > > Although this doesn't have ethernet, it has a single USB 3.0 port. I've > used a USB 3.0 hub to connect a gigabit ethernet dongle and the Fedora > live stick. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
