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8-inch sub-notebook launched
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hj2k_x
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+1
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Theres also nothing about it on the Sahara website
Well then there is not much we can see, based on that article really
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
Nevermind, covered above.
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Seems similar to the EEE to me...
Cept it has an AMD processor and a normal HDD> I doubt that claim of 4.5hrs battery life is anywhere near correct.
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
Apple just got (successfully) sued for a shyte load of money for claiming an unrealistic battery life. So if they have even a bit of sense in them then they will try to be at least semi-accurate.
Not too keen on an AMD in a mobile device....or desktop for that matter.
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Yes, and yes.
bdt
Executive Member
So, (officially anyway) it's being released as a Linux device with a Geode LX 800 brain and chipset [-]thundering[/-] lumbering along at all of 500MHz 
and a whopping 256MB RAM (at least it's DDR2 and upgradable). I'm happy with the wee screen at 800x480 (hello watching movies!) but there would definitely need to be some upgrading to make this useful: tie first place 
would be a USB optical drive and 2x 1gig RAM! ..I wonder how big the drive can do? And no wired LAN is annoying: WLAN is too slow a lot of the time, dammit!
Specs (per the first link)
and a whopping 256MB RAM (at least it's DDR2 and upgradable). I'm happy with the wee screen at 800x480 (hello watching movies!) but there would definitely need to be some upgrading to make this useful: tie first place would be a USB optical drive and 2x 1gig RAM! ..I wonder how big the drive can do? And no wired LAN is annoying: WLAN is too slow a lot of the time, dammit!Specs (per the first link)
More at Sahara India. Still, bar the possibly sluggish CPU (who knows how well these things perform anyway?), this could well be turned into something of an ultraportable cracker ..with caveats anyway.
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Ya, that seems quite inferior to even the entry level EEE.So, (officially anyway) it's being released as a Linux device with a Geode LX 800 brain and chipset [-]thundering[/-] lumbering along at all of 500MHz
Specs (per the first link)
More at Sahara India. Still, bar the possibly sluggish CPU (who knows how well these things perform anyway?), this could well be turned into something of an ultraportable cracker ..with caveats anyway.
bdt
Executive Member
Depends on how you look at it (caveat, I'm NOT up to speed on EEE specs!) but I'm all for being able to stuff the thing with 2gig RAM 'n maybe, I dunno, a 250gig drive or so - surely that would beat the pants off the EEE in those departments? Still, it seems we're pitting the wee Geode CPU(let) against a Dothan Celery in the EEE - how's that likely to pan out?
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
bdt
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hj2k_x
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TheRoDent
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The AMD Geode CPU has been the stalwart of embedded computing for a long time - Wireless Routers, and many platforms have been developed around it. The architecture is decent, and compliant.
Speedwise, it works as well as you could expect from a device this size. The EE isn't exactly blinding either - thats not why you buy a device like this. The RAM is a little low-spec, but the EE also launched low, with upgrade options. This baby can go up to 2Gig which is just fine.
The hard-drive is an interesting choice, and FAR outweighs the measly few gigabytes the EE can muster.
Non-wired LAN is a non-issue, since you get plenty of USB->Ethernet adapters, and I'd actually rather have the PCMCIA slot on a device such as this, than an ethernet port.
It is, after all, a "mobile" device. I'd rather be able to stick a 3G or iBurst card into it, than ethernet.
The biggest con's compared to the EEPC:
No builtin camera
Touchpads suck (so does the one on the EEPC)
Other than that, it's a nice, neat cheap device.
/me waits for the IBM subnotebook, built on a PowerPC platform, running Linux.
Speedwise, it works as well as you could expect from a device this size. The EE isn't exactly blinding either - thats not why you buy a device like this. The RAM is a little low-spec, but the EE also launched low, with upgrade options. This baby can go up to 2Gig which is just fine.
The hard-drive is an interesting choice, and FAR outweighs the measly few gigabytes the EE can muster.
Non-wired LAN is a non-issue, since you get plenty of USB->Ethernet adapters, and I'd actually rather have the PCMCIA slot on a device such as this, than an ethernet port.
It is, after all, a "mobile" device. I'd rather be able to stick a 3G or iBurst card into it, than ethernet.
The biggest con's compared to the EEPC:
No builtin camera
Touchpads suck (so does the one on the EEPC)
Other than that, it's a nice, neat cheap device.
/me waits for the IBM subnotebook, built on a PowerPC platform, running Linux.
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
What about the slow processor and likely poor battery life?
TheRoDent
Cool Ideas Rep
Instruction for instruction, and for general usage, the CPU will pretty much perform the same as the EEPC, due to the fact that the Geode has much of the PCI bus, and perephirals integrated near the CPU. Aside from mathematically intensive operations (for which you shouldn't be using either of these devices), I don't really see the EEPC outperforming the Geode by a blinding margin.
The Geode processor will provide much better battery life than the EEPC's 800mhz intel processor. This is a guarantee. Slow processor does not equal poor battery life. In fact, the opposite.
A PowerPC platform of the same spec, would do even better. IBM's chip and die process is smaller than AMD/Intel generally, resulting in lower consumption and better battery performance.
What was your point again ?
The Geode processor will provide much better battery life than the EEPC's 800mhz intel processor. This is a guarantee. Slow processor does not equal poor battery life. In fact, the opposite.
A PowerPC platform of the same spec, would do even better. IBM's chip and die process is smaller than AMD/Intel generally, resulting in lower consumption and better battery performance.
What was your point again ?