The Netbook Thread

[offyoutoddle]

just got an asus aspire one. 120gb linux, but win xp'd it now. I really love it, small, cheap and does the job perfectly. didn't get an ssd one, as i wanted windows, and there are performance probs with the ssd ones, plus all the pratting around with space isn't what i was after. Can't recommend these babies enough, beautiful piece of tech.

[Firefox]

It's hardly "Giant", though, it's slightly smaller than my newton, and half the weight. Indeed, I am very interested.

Shame you can't get Newton OS. It'd be really nice on that, and you could underclock it by half and still get very snappy performance.

As long as you own a physical Newton (or have access to a rom image, you dirty hacker), you can. http://code.google.com/p/einstein/ Newton OS can handle bigger screens than the MP2K had, so should be able to use all the screen real estate at least, and is almost sorta colour-enabled, although hacking colour in wouldn't suddenly colourise any older apps.

How *very* interesting!

I did have a play with that emulator a little while ago. I completely missed that you could specify a different screen size (I assumed it just stretched the Newton screen to fit). It seemed sluggish on my gaming PC, too. *But*, I see in the manual that it has ARM->ARM translation support now...

I'll have a go at porting it to the Pandora when the touchscreen driver is in (might be a while yet, though). It'll be interesting to see how well it goes on something as fast as a Cortex A8.

[piku]

Do want

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/21 ... vista_scc/

Too small, stupid price, point missed.

Crap battery capacity and jamming all those pixels into a 5 inch screen isn't really going to help - look at the Eee's 800x480 screen compared to the N810's 800x480 screen for a fine example.

[tufty]

[How *very* interesting!

I did have a play with that emulator a little while ago. I completely missed that you could specify a different screen size (I assumed it just stretched the Newton screen to fit). It seemed sluggish on my gaming PC, too. *But*, I see in the manual that it has ARM->ARM translation support now...

I'll have a go at porting it to the Pandora when the touchscreen driver is in (might be a while yet, though). It'll be interesting to see how well it goes on something as fast as a Cortex A8. :)

There's also a move to take some of the emulation out, to patch certain OS calls directly to the host platform, which should blast performance much higher. The last official build, from about a year ago, was pretty quick compared to the previous ones, and the current trunk build is a shitload faster than that. Building K is a bastard, though.

[moosedude]

Do want

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/21 ... vista_scc/

Too small, stupid price, point missed.

Crap battery capacity and jamming all those pixels into a 5 inch screen isn't really going to help - look at the Eee's 800x480 screen compared to the N810's 800x480 screen for a fine example.

reading about the bonsai earlier this week. Whats with laptop manufacturers wanting to put fingerprint readers on everything, my new dell has one. I'm not sure most PC users would give a toss. Fingerprint H/W must of recently become cheaper to mass manufacture.

the bonsai doesn't look right, it reminds me of what people thought computers of the future would look like from the 80's.

[Firefox]

There's also a move to take some of the emulation out, to patch certain OS calls directly to the host platform, which should blast performance much higher. The last official build, from about a year ago, was pretty quick compared to the previous ones, and the current trunk build is a shitload faster than that.

Hmmm, I think it would be rude not to at least give it a go!

(It'll be a good few weeks yet, though. I'm supposed to be porting the Amiga emulator at the moment...)

Building K is a bastard, though.

K? </manuel>

[Dio]

At least that makes me feel less guilty about not giving you an Emu drop yet. (But I've very nearly stabilised most of the OS interfaces, so at least when I do it should be a port once, fix later, rather than port many times...)

[Firefox]

No need to feel guilty mate!

As I said before, I'd be very interested to have a play with Emu but there's absolutely no pressure and I appreciate it's hard for you to scrape together enough contiguous blocks of time to work on it at the moment.

[Dio]

The stuff I needed the big blocks of time for is pretty much all sorted. It's just thousands of little things now, so I'm making progress through 'em slowly... I'm trying to shift at least one line off the todolist every night, but since they often appear at at least that rate, I'm only moving forward slowly .

[ThetaReactor]

I'm really starting to wonder here.

Lenovo announces a dinky notebook, and it's got no Trackpoint. One would think that such a device, aside from being vastly superior to touchpads, would appeal to those looking to save space. But noooooo. I wasn't holding out for a butterfly keyboard, nice as that could be. But I want my rubber nipple.

Fuck it. Roll on Pandora. I didn't intend to do any real work on such a thing anyhow...

[tufty]

Building K is a bastard, though.

K? </manuel>

The bloke who wrote it originally is a bit of a genius, but like many geniuses, falls into the "not invented here" trap. So he wrote his own platform agnostic foundation level framework, called K. Because the world needs another nearly platform agnostic foundation level framework. That said, it does work pretty well, but still, it's a pita. also, most of the documentation is in french.

Also also, <looks pointedly at Dio> **koff** emu **koff**

[Dio]

Yeah, I know. I've been cleaning it up and documenting it for a couple of months, so when it does go out for porting it only needs to be a big job once.

[Firefox]

The bloke who wrote it originally is a bit of a genius, but like many geniuses, falls into the "not invented here" trap. So he wrote his own platform agnostic foundation level framework, called K. Because the world needs another nearly platform agnostic foundation level framework. That said, it does work pretty well, but still, it's a pita. also, most of the documentation is in french.

Ah... Oh well, I'll blow up that bridge when I come to it.

[ThetaReactor]

If any USian 'softies are looking for an eee, buy.com has the 901s with XP for $525 after rebate: http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?s ... caid=17653

[HGFB]

I saw the Aspire one while I was in Currys today. Nice styling but it has a distinct lack of blue function keys and those trackpad buttons are retarded