Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 20 14:53:45 UTC 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 08:25:59PM -0400, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
>   Specifically the 11.6" screen Acer Aspireone AO751h-1505 Netbook at
> http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=024766&cid=NBK.862.670
> 
>   I intend to eventually install Gentoo on it, although I may experiment
> with Virtualbox on Windows first as mentioned in another thread.

I really really wish intel would stop being such assholes and stop making
chips without 64bit support.  These days wtih 2 to 4GB ram becoming
normal even in laptops, 32bit only cpus are totally stupid.

Right now for the atom the 64bit capable chips are:
 230 (1600MHz single core, HT)
D410 (1667MHz single core, HT, integrated GPU and memory controller)
 330 (1600MHz dual core, HT)
D510 (1667MHz dual core, HT, integrated GPU and memory controller)

None of the Nxxx and Zxxx support 64bit.  Strangely though the Z520,
Z530, Z540 and Z550 support virtualization though.  Somehow that seems
like it would be more useful on a machine able to use more ram than a
32bit chip can use.

Of course I have yet to see any netbooks with any of the 4 nice 64bit
atom chips in them.

Well hopefully next year there could be little netbooks with the
loongson-3/godson-3 processor (1GHz 4 core 64bit MIPS, at 10W TDP).
That would be interesting (it will totally outrun the current atom chips
by a large margin).

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