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Intel Unveils New Low-Cost PC Platform

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Re: Intel Unveils New Low-Cost PC Platform

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Post by _wmd »

Animats wrote: post #2

Does it run Linux out of the box?

Given recent history and the public reports of kernel developers, it may not run "out of the box" acceptably for its target market (low power devices) for quite some time after release. (see: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html , although this post is about a different microarchitecture )

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Post by imperialdrive »

reading this article on my new $84 Nextbook Flexx 9 with atom cpu... traveling EU and wanted something to book ryanair flights with, jot down a few notes with a keyboard, and not care if it' lost or stolen... it is definitely useable once the updates are all caught up... if they can be even faster, lighter, more power efficient, then yay for us consumers

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Post by petecox »

orbitingpluto wrote: post #7
akc1 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why Linux in particular?

Because Bay Trail devices only came with a 32-bit UEFI making it impossible* to boot Linux. (*annoyingly obtuse to get it to work).

That was 2 gens ago. Did Cherry Trail have the same limitation?

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Post by wmf »

gcb0 wrote: post #14
intrasight wrote: post #3

"Intel has not specified the TDP of its new processors" Left out the one piece of info I was most interested in.

low cost is never the same as low TDP. never.

That was the case with the original Atom, but Braswell and the various Trails are pretty low TDP.

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Post by pjmlp »

daveguy wrote: post #9
akc1 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why Linux in particular?

FreeBSD would work too. When talking about low cost computers adding a $120 Microsoft fee kind of defeats the purpose.

OEMs don't pay a $120 fee to Microsoft.

I have seen quite a few laptops online where getting Linux pre-installed is actually more expensive than getting Windows. You can get them without OS, but then good luck getting everything to work.

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Post by NicoJuicy »

mtgx wrote: post #4

Another platform for which to overcharge customers and OEMs by $70-$120 by using the names "Celeron" and "Pentium", for what is essentially a $30 mobile chip. And they use the name "Lake" in there, too, to make people think it has anything to do with the Skylake and Kaby Lake platforms (which it doesn't from a CPU point of view - Intel stopped using the Core architecture for Celerons with the Haswell version). When I…

A lot of people don't even know what Pentium or Celeron is.. And the ones who do will propably check online reviews ;)

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Post by raverbashing »

devsquid wrote: post #5

I'm a bit confused, how is this any different then the next iteration on the Atom line? Is it a significant improvement?

One interesting point is the reduction in hw costs due to higher integration and built-in hw (there's a slide there with some info)
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