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Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC

Posted by timothy on from the such-a-cute-box dept.

vincecate writes "I just purchased a brand new AMD PIC which has been on Slashdot and LinuxDevices. I have opened it up and put some pictures and comments on the web. Some interesting things are that the system uses only 8 watts, the Windows CE does not want you installing any software, you can not get to the BIOS settings, and I was not able to boot Linux." (He was able, though, to boot Linux from an IDE device on a mini-ITX system also based on the Geode processor.)

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  1. Flash Failure? by twalls · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "This type of computer should last just about forever."

    Right... except the flash will die after about a million writes. Still, a cool concept indeed!

  2. Re:Geez... by dave420 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I'm sorry, but are you for real??

    The whole idea is to allow poor people to get on the internet. That doesn't involve installing your favourite distro to show to your mates, tweaking the CAS timing of the ram, or installing the latest 3D screensaver.

    It's not meant to be the latest uberPC.