Yet Another Armed PC

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Robert Pogson

Two in fact. Genesi makes a nettop and a smartbook both with 800MHz FreeScale CPU and Ubuntu 10.10. $129 for the nettop and $199 for the smartbook. That is competitive in price/performance. Too bad it’s not the latest dual core CPU but it is ARM and with 512MB it will work well with Ubuntu and it allows you to install your favourite distro with a customer kernel.

See Genesi

So many gadgets. So little time.

About Robert Pogson

I am a retired teacher in Canada. I taught in the subject areas where I have worked for almost forty years: maths, physics, chemistry and computers. I love hunting, fishing, picking berries and mushrooms, too.
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One Response to Yet Another Armed PC

  1. oe says:
    March 14, 2011 at 1:48 am

    This problem with the Big Nuke power gen industry occurring over the pond re-emphasizes the wisdom of ARM over x86, CFL’s over incandescent, and other such technologies that get the baseline energy requirement of the grid down.

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