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Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
« on: June 28, 2006, 11:05:00 PM »
Inq article  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.  
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Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
« Reply #1 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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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!  :-)

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Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2006, 01:08:01 AM »
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What makes this even sweeter is that XScale isn't dirty anymore as it's just gone from Intel to Marvel.  


:-?  :-?  :-?
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Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2006, 01:25:49 AM »
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:-?  :-?  :-?


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 equally doesn't really make a huge difference to us end users...

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Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
« Reply #4 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.  
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Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
« Reply #5 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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Re: Cheap, available (and cool) hardware
« Reply #6 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.
Time to move on.  Bye Amiga.org.  :(