[Arm-netbook] linus torvalds says "2016 is the year of the arm laptop"

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:04 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 00:39 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:56 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>> > I have 8" and 10" ARM phablets with that resolution display
>> > and I'm sure there must be some youtube out there of similar
>> > devices.
>>
>>  what's the model / make and  what's the internal processor?
>
> Its at home now - It was one of these or a similar model
> http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Onda-V919-4G-Air-9-7-Inch-Android-4-4-Phablet-MTK8752-Octa-Core-2-4GHz-2048-1536-2G-3G-4G-2GB-32GB-Tablet-PC-WiFi-GPS-BT---Silver-344501.html

 ahh mediatek gpl-violating with 100% certainty *sigh*.

 ok so it's technically doable.  that's a quad-core 64-bit with an
A53... yowser the peak power consumption is going to be enormous
though.   it'll be a MIPI or eDP display.

l.