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Linux on the GPD Pocket 7

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Re: Linux on the GPD Pocket 7

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Post by opencl »

morganvachon wrote: post #4
mschuster91 wrote: post #3

Looks nice - but can it play Youtube without having to close everything else on the system? I've been badly burned by "netbooks" powered by Atom CPUs... nice battery life but forget opening Facebook or Youtube, and the ultra low screen resolution doesn't help either when web sites are designed for FullHD+ monitors.

> "Looks nice - but can it play Youtube without having to close everything else on the system? I've been badly burned by "netbooks" powered by Atom CPUs... nice battery life but forget opening Facebook or Youtube" You should have no issues, the Atom used in these is not your 2010 PIII based Atom, it's a modern part that can handle the modern Web. > "and the ultra low screen resolution doesn't help either when web sit…

The early Atoms weren't P3 based, they were an original low-power design and actually quite a bit slower than the P3 at similar clockspeeds. Though a lot of the unpleasantness of using those machines was more from the extremely anemic GPU which has also improved considerably since then.

Here's a benchmark comparison between the Atom used in the EeePC 901 (N270 @ 1.6Ghz), the GPD Pocket (x7-Z8750 @ 1.6Ghz), and a 1.1Ghz P3: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2968&cmp[]=13...

The P3 is slightly faster than the old Atom in spite of the lower clock, and the new one is over 2x as fast single threaded and over 7x as fast multithreaded.

Re: Linux on the GPD Pocket 7

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Post by agumonkey »

mschuster91 wrote: post #6
morganvachon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Looks nice - but can it play Youtube without having to close everything else on the system? I've been badly burned by "netbooks" powered by Atom CPUs... nice battery life but forget opening Facebook or Youtube" You should have no issues, the Atom used in these is not your 2010 PIII based Atom, it's a modern part that can handle the modern Web. > "and the ultra low screen resolution doesn't help either when web sit…

> You should have no issues, the Atom used in these is not your 2010 PIII based Atom, it's a modern part that can handle the modern Web. Pentium 3? Ew. I thought the Atoms were descendants of the Core2 family. > If 1920x1200 is "ultra low screen resolution" then what do you consider high res? You're right - I had overlooked this in the specs and based my judgment on the "screenshot" a bit below...

first atoms were pentium arch on modern semiconductor tech, that's how they achieved low TDP.

Re: Linux on the GPD Pocket 7

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Post by cujic9 »

I've been looking for something like this for a while. The Asus C101 Chromebook with GnuRoot Debian for a chrooted Linux has done a satisfactory job. Small, light, reasonable keyboard, and flips into a tablet.

Re: Linux on the GPD Pocket 7

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Post by Yizahi »

mschuster91 wrote: post #3

Looks nice - but can it play Youtube without having to close everything else on the system? I've been badly burned by "netbooks" powered by Atom CPUs... nice battery life but forget opening Facebook or Youtube, and the ultra low screen resolution doesn't help either when web sites are designed for FullHD+ monitors.

Braswell series Atom N3700 that is about the same (only GPU is better there), is adequate for youtube, facebook and other office stuff multitasking. It can even run Visual Studio, but with lags. Most of the slowness in my laptop was from 5400rpm HDD, here SSD will improve things.
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