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Fast, cheap, long battery life -- pick zero. Or did I miss something?

• ZeroGravitas 17y ago
  Windows incompatibility? That's probably the major reason for Joe Q Public to pass on it, even before they notice the rest. It also doesn't (yet?) do suspend and resume, which is a bit of a buzz-kill. Personally I applaud experiments on how low you can go with processing power and still have a usable (for some definition of usable) laptop/netbook. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I can get done on my iPhone. And this seems driven by some real needs within China. It also seems notable that it's being actively marketed as fully free software compliant from the BIOS up. I've been checking out ARM stuff and the upcoming netbooks all seem (from speculation/guesswork) to have various proprietary blobs in them, particularly for graphics, which will hinder Linux getting the most out of them.
  • limmeau 17y ago
    I agree that low-power computing is an interesting topic and free turtles all the way down are worth having -- however, the XO had free firmware and low power consumption years ago (and a sunlight-friendly display and mesh networking etc...), so I'm seriously unimpressed by this machine.