Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Mark Kent on Wednesday
>> Roy Schestowitz espoused:
>>
>>> Mentioned again in the Inquirer.
>>>
>>> China to produce $125 PC
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| A Chinese outfit is hoping to release a PC which will
>>>| hit the shops with a price tag of $125.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34355
>>
>> Wow, good numbers! Linux has to be the natural choice for
>> that, hasn't it? Otherwise it'll be a very expensive
>> budget PC.
>
> My computer cost me just 165 quid. And it would probably
> sell for about 120 these days. It's overpowered for SUSE
> with KDE, which is a shame. I could have saved me some
> money... *grin*
It uses a 64-bit MIPS processor. I would be curious to see a
special 64-bit implementation of Linux tailored to its
instruction set run on it. It may not be as slow as some think
it is.
165 quid? This unit then would sell for 68 quid.
BTW, I downloaded the latest nVidia driver for my now ancient
1.7 GHz Intel Celeron system's MX440 4X AGP with 128 MB graphics
memory.
I tried out some of the Linux games requiring acceleration, one
was a bang-bang shoot-em up flight simulator. I haven't been
accustom to such smoothness out of Windows XP or 98. Command
and Conquer Generals bogs down when unit counts increase and
some of the graphics becomes jerky. Mech Warrior 2 bogged down.
The Linux game graphics were extremely smooth and video like.
My observations are very similar to the PC ports of Linux games
I ran on my AMD K2 450 Mhz system 7 years ago.
I just downloaded Q-CAD Open Source and brl-CAD. It will give
me an opportunity to see how these now open source CAD systems
compare with the proprietary.
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