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They cover that in the article. The CPU is underclocked because the CPU has no active or passive cooling. And the disk has 4KB write latencies as high as 116ms.
by spiffytech 6y ago
They cover that in the article. The CPU is underclocked because the CPU has no active or passive cooling. And the disk has 4KB write latencies as high as 116ms. The device is designed to be legally sellable as a "computer", not to actually support workloads of any shape whatsoever.
- mobilio 6y agoIt's criminal to sell such "computer" because it's useless for any normal use other than running Notepad or browsing sites with Lynx (text mode browser). Only Linux distribution or some derivate can rescue such device from endless issues.
- fortran77 6y agoActually, the article stated that Linux didn't do much better, because of lack of cooling of the CPU among other issues.
- Joeri 6y agoI used to have a 0.2 ghz computer with 0.1 gb of ram that ran linux 2.2 very well, graphical desktop with full app complement and all the process isolation and multitasking of a modern OS. Modern software is incredibly bloated. It’s not really the kernel though, it’s everything else.
- speedgoose 6y agoThe usages are differents. You weren't doing much on your old computer compared to what people are doing today on their smartphone.
- Dylan16807 6y agoI spend most of my smartphone use reading text, maybe with a few images, or listening to mp3s with the screen off. You can fit those uses just fine into a hundred megabytes of ram and a slow processor.