On 31 January 2018 at 09:38, Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you like an ARM laptop, this is coming soon: > https://www.asus.com/ca-en/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS-NovaGo-TP370QL/ > > I wonder how long it will take after release before someone has Linux > installed on one. > There's also the very very cheap Pinebook64 at $100 US. I've played with one: they're built better than they should be for such a cheap machine, but like all Raspberry Pi-wannabe boards, the kernel and graphics support leave much to be desired. Pinebooks were briefly popular from the Amiga emulation crowd (yes, I've been in a room with enough of 'em recently that they can still muster a crowd) who have recently moved on from spending $X,0000 on Qoriq (Power) boards to looking at ARM. > > The Lemote laptops were Loongson based, so MIPS laptops have existed. > > Briefly beloved by RMS because they were so open, but painfully slow, and who knew how backdoored in the silicon. Apart from a 8-core MIPS64 server I saw on Taobao, outside of routers Linux on MIPS lives on in the Onion Omega2, a tiny IOT thing nominally developed out of Markham. It's not much of a Linux computer - 580 MHz MediaTek MT7688, 128 MB RAM, 32 MB flash in the *plus* version - but they're cheap and actually do what they promise, unlike those horrid Intel IOT things from a few years back. cheers, Stewart
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