My Dell Mini 9 still has some killer features that I can't seem to find on the market:
1. < $300
2. No fan
3. SDD
4. GPU
5. x86
Because of the need to support Windows a lot of netbooks are missing the SSD and add the fan. A lot of the Chromebooks are Atom. The one Samsung one maybe fits this bill, but I think it is on its way out.
I had hope for Haswell, but turns out it may break #1.
Anyway, I guess I need to start thinking about Atom and what kinds of OpenGL ES kinds of things maybe, and forget about OpenCL or some such, which is probably appropriate anyway.
The point of how awesome the machine is that it is small, quiet, and an amazing terminal into the various clusters I utilize.
It's arguably point #1 that's killing the PC market. $300 isn't much money to work with, and there's a huge difference between a $500 computer and a $300 one. At the lower price-point, you're getting bargain-bin everything, every corner cut.
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My Dell Mini 9 still has some killer features that I can't seem to find on the market:
1. < $300
2. No fan
3. SDD
4. GPU
5. x86
Because of the need to support Windows a lot of netbooks are missing the SSD and add the fan. A lot of the Chromebooks are Atom. The one Samsung one maybe fits this bill, but I think it is on its way out.
I had hope for Haswell, but turns out it may break #1.
Anyway, I guess I need to start thinking about Atom and what kinds of OpenGL ES kinds of things maybe, and forget about OpenCL or some such, which is probably appropriate anyway.
The point of how awesome the machine is that it is small, quiet, and an amazing terminal into the various clusters I utilize.
Thanks Microsoft, for killing them off.
It's arguably point #1 that's killing the PC market. $300 isn't much money to work with, and there's a huge difference between a $500 computer and a $300 one. At the lower price-point, you're getting bargain-bin everything, every corner cut.