[GTALUG] How to go fast without speculating... maybe

[Stewart Russell]

On 31 January 2018 at 09:38, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
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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