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Title: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
Post by: peroxidechicken on June 28, 2006, 11:05:00 PM
Inq article (http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32703)  What makes this even sweeter is that XScale isn't dirty anymore as it's just gone from Intel to Marvel.  

The $100 (or should that be $300?) laptop would also be an ideal cheap, available and cool platform for our favourite product that isn't quite a product.  
Title: Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
Post by: InTheSand on June 28, 2006, 11:56:44 PM
Very cool! Would make a nice platform for a low resource OS (AROS anyone?!).

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from the article:
You can pick one up with prices starting from $47 (provided you want 10,000)


OK, so now we need another 9,998 users and we'll be set!  :-)

 - Ali
Title: Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
Post by: adolescent on June 29, 2006, 01:08:01 AM
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peroxidechicken wrote:
What makes this even sweeter is that XScale isn't dirty anymore as it's just gone from Intel to Marvel.  


:-?  :-?  :-?
Title: Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
Post by: InTheSand on June 29, 2006, 01:25:49 AM
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adolescent wrote:
:-?  :-?  :-?


Hmmm... methinks some "anti-Intelism" is at work here!!

It's not like the ARM architecture suddenly became "dirty" when Intel ended up with it... The sale of the XScale stuff to Marvell (http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=6410) equally doesn't really make a huge difference to us end users...

 - Ali
Title: Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
Post by: peroxidechicken on June 29, 2006, 01:00:19 PM
Yeah yeah.  That swipe at Intel was a bit of joke.  I'm more interested in the two products I first mentioned.  
Title: Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
Post by: motorollin on June 29, 2006, 02:21:56 PM
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In this space, the CM-X270L somehow manages fits in ... some things you wouldn’t find on a PDA, such as a PCI bus

Where the fk do the PCI cards go? :-?

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moto
Title: Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
Post by: adolescent on July 01, 2006, 05:21:48 PM
@motorollin

PCI bus doesn't necessarily mean (traditional) PCI card slots.  On one of the expansion boxes there are two PCI connectors.  Hardware vendors would have to modify their parts to fit on this, or you could possibly create and adapter.