MIPS and ARM powered Netbooks are on their way!

[the_leander]

Gdium MIPS powered 10inch Netbook

Ubuntu parent company works with ARM toward building a better Netbook announcement.

Reason I put this up is that Karlos pointed out that both ARM and MIPS would be ideal in this sector and I have to agree.

Atom and C7 based netbooks, as good as they are are not particularly efficient, and if you're going to use Linux, why bother with X86 at all?

Personally, having always fawned over SGI workstations, I am inclined to go MIPS, that said, if the ARM versions come out and are faster/cheaper/better batteries I'd go with that.

Mind you, I would love an all in one with the CPU out of this...

YouTube video of the Gdium in action - Thanks go to FluffyMcdeath for spotting that one.

[the_leander]

bloodline wrote:
I love the MIPS architecture... it has to be the cleanest and most beautiful I've ever seen.

Now if there were an opera port for debian-mips, I would be tempted beyond description... Debian running Elightenment 17 with Elive's Dark theme, with Opera using the Mirage Alpha skin...

My gods, it would be beautiful... The most elegant cpu, being used to generate the most elegant desktop system ever made....