[Klug-general] Is the worm slowly turning?

[George Prowse]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>> The EEE isn't specialist hardware, it's very generic x86 kit.
>>>     
>>
>> Compared to a standard x86 machine now it is specialist, in that its low
>> power, low Mhz, low memory compared to an ordinary off the shelf box.
>>   
>
> Mobile processors that go into all laptops, and even some servers now, 
> are designed to be as power efficient as possible.  "low mhz" is 
> pretty meaningless given most laptop processors have speed-stepping 
> capability.  My EEE has 2Gb of memory.
>
>
>> Its bottom of the line in other words, built out of hardware less 
>> suited to
>> the current OS requirements.
>>   
>
> Err, rubbish.
>
>> In itself SSD is specialist and requires a file system that does write
>> minimilisation and ware leveling, neither of which are available in 
>> either
>> of microsofts file system formats.
>>   
>
> I think you'll find FAT32 is a perfectly well suited filesystem for SSDs.
>
> Regards
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>
>
I think what Karl means is that as a sub-laptop they have their niche 
and as such they are not designed with doing everything that 
off-the-shelf laptops do in mind. In fact, if I remember correctly, it 
was started to rival the OLPC laptop. It has it's ups and downs, 
personally I couldn't put up with the lack of storage or processing 
power but that is why I have a PowerBook and not a laptop anyway.

I suppose the real test is whether you'll see businesses buying them en 
masse