[Arm-netbook] Looking for an ARM Netbook !

[Marco Caminati]

> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:49:09 +0100
> From: Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>
> Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Looking for an ARM Netbook !
> To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk>
> Message-ID: <4FF41195.8070901 at bobich.net>
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> On 07/04/2012 10:23 AM, lkcl luke wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net> 
> wrote:
> >
> >>>   then you have to add tax,
> shipping, customs duty, tax and tax on
> >>> customs duty.  realistically you're
> looking at a budget of about
> >>> $220.
> >>
> >>   And if you follow that logic,
> you'll also have to build it yourself or
> >>   wait for someone to do so. :)
> >>   Meanwhile, back in the real world,
> most of us have stopped holding our
> >>   breath and are making do with what
> is available - some of which is
> >>   already more advanced (by at least
> an extra CPU core) than the described
> >>   A10 solution.
> >
> >   sorry, i'm not following you,
> here.  i was referring to generic products.
> 
> Persactly - the OP was asking for an OTS available ARM
> netbook. :)
> 
> I have to say there is one good thing that came out of the
> recent wedge 
> between the popularity of ARM and lack of RAM in most ARM
> machines - it 
> has made people actually start paying attention to the
> blatantly 
> unreasonable RAM requirements of various software. There's a
> lot you can 
> scrape out of 512MB of RAM if you actually put your mind to
> it. 

+1
To me, it's a primarily aesthetic issue, to which the trend of cheap/small arm devices just complies.

http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
http://suckless.org/philosophy

From this point of view, Android took Linux and de-Unixied it, making it ugly. Largely a regress.