tbh, i think you could get away with the default OS/UI, its *very* windows-like in appearance, and i'm sure she could apart easily enough to openoffice and an SD card. the only thing is the front end menu system, which is similar in style to a psion-type device (just big icons for the different programs/settings/etc)
unless she wanted to do anything fiddly on it, i dont think it would be a problem
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dom wrote:runs at almost realtime speed on the Eee
I'd be disappointed if the Jag emulator didn't run fine throttled, which needs at least 10x the horsepower of any 8-bit machine.
I'd be interested to know how it goes on the EeePc too! Should work fine provided you've got SDL v1.2 installed.
Really must try to scrape together some time to write a menu system for T2K v0.06... Rather busy with work at the minute, though.
"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
Well, for when I have one, I'll be pretty keen for you to port the more solid WSI in Emu to it so I can at least fiddle with the OS-independent bits on holiday
A few new bits of information about the Menlow platform, so not the Eee
but possible components for the Eee's successor.
The Menlow plaform has two main parts.
Silverthorne CPU.
0.9(LV) -- 1.86 GHz
0.6(LV) -- 1.33 GHz EIST
64bit
HT (simultaneous multi-threading)
533 MHz FSB
512k L2 Cache
In-order
SSSE3
VT (virtualisation)
0.6 -- 2 Watt TDP
New low power states, lowest C6 state 0.1 W
Poulsbo chipset.
SM3.0 IGP
Decode acceleration of MPEG2, MPEG4-AVC, VC1
Currently McCaslin has a TDP of 10W, 2W average. Menlow should
come in around TDP 3W and 0.85W. The Eee is similar to McCaslin
and probably around 14W and 3W.
Obviously you need to consider the other parts of a system, but
you can see that some substantial reductions in the power used by
the chipset and CPU are going to come soon.
I think these chips will be used by a wide range of handhelds,
sub-notebooks, STB-PCs and Windows Home Server/NAS boxes.
Asus has talked about a Merom equipped Eee but I'd very surprised
if they aren't working on a Menlow version as well as or instead of
dropping Merom in.
An in-order core will have some really substantial implications on PC compilers.
OK, the Core 2 isn't quite the reordering beast that the P4 was, but even so, PC compilers have got used to using the reordering as a crutch for quite a while.
Dio wrote:Well, for when I have one, I'll be pretty keen for you to port the more solid WSI in Emu to it so I can at least fiddle with the OS-independent bits on holiday
I think I might be up for that.
"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
The Register have a little article about how online retailers are already pricing up the 8GB model. Clove are doing preorders at £304. That's an extra £84 but when you consider that you'd probably be dropping an extra £60 on the 4G unit to pop a gig of RAM in you're essentially getting an extra 4GB of flash for £24. Sounds pretty good to me.
(And before anyone says that you can get a 4GB SD card for a fiver, or whatever, remember that the internal flash is properly connected to the south bridge so you're not restrained by the USB2 bus speeds)
WiteWulf wrote:That's an extra £84 but when you consider that you'd probably be dropping an extra £60 on the 4G unit to pop a gig of RAM in you're essentially getting an extra 4GB of flash for £24. Sounds pretty good to me.
