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Where Would You Buy A Crusoe Laptop?
Misha asks: "I have been following Transmeta's news briefs for a little while and besides the stock's constant decline, there seems to be some life to the Crusoe. This story indicates that a new Crusoe-based laptop is appearing in China. Does anyone actually own one or an equivalent from some other manufacturer? Could you please post a review? Pros and cons from anyone reading would be appreciated." Unfortunately, it doesn't look like things have changed in the past year. Besides goods from specialty importers like dynamism.com (check out the Bluetooth camera!), the only Transmeta devices widely available in the U.S. seem to be the last few generations of Sony's Picturebook. I'd hoped for a tidal wave of them -- is there any hope of more widespread Crusoe laptop presence? Or are there good sources already?
Fujitsu has several crusoe models available.
Since Crusoe can have different instructions sets how low level do these instructions need to be? Is it possible that it could be made to use a high level language's byte code?
I'm not just thinking Java either - running Python or Perl apps on a dedicated CPU would be very cool. Is it possible at all?
I can't spell or type, but that doesn't mean I'm unusually stupid.
I own a Crusoe SonyPicture book, and yes it does get good battery (something like 8-10 hours real useable time with my wireless netcard in and the quad battery). But they honestly seem to lack in speed, and as far as linux goes it runs in 586 mode. They are ok, but not the groundbreakers I had hoped for.