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Cherrypal Mini-Laptop Now Runs Android
kriston writes in about a new development with the Cherrypal mini laptop, which we discussed last December. "The Cherrypal Asia laptop is now shipping with Google Android installed (product page). This replaces the older Cherrypal Asia mini laptops that were running either Windows CE or a custom Linux. The $148 version has a 1024x600 screen while the sub-$100 model runs 800x480. Both laptops run the ARM9-based VIA 8505 SoIC platform at 533 MHz with 256 megabytes of RAM and 2 gigabytes of NAND flash. I'm looking forward to seeing how Android can squeeze more throughput out of the VIA 8505, since Windows CE didn't do such a great job on the original Cherrypal Asia."
AFAIK, Cherrypal delivers different kinds of laptops at different times.
What's advertised on their website is the *minimum* specs that they guarantee you'll get. This means, when the unit actually ships to you, you can get a machine with specs actually higher than what was advertised on their site.
From what I've heard, Cherrypal basically shops around for different parts/configs that they can get at a particular time, then they build machines out of those assorted parts -- that's why customers will get different kinds of machines with varying specs.
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The link takes me to a login/register page, I registered, and still can't log in. From where I'm sitting, Cherrypal is solely a spam information harvesting site. No links to a "Cherrypal Asia" exist on the products page. Had to hit the google cache to get information. I have budget for another netbook and would consider one if only I could log in.
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Googling "Cherrypal fraud" may prove instructive, if you happen to find the time. Wasn't there a front-page story on these guys taking money for computers and never delivering them? Why more attention to these scam artists?
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We have been playing on these since a while... well, they're not exactly CherryPals, but they're totally compatible (after all the CherryPals are just stuff they get from Chinese factories with their logos on). And yes, they have a WonderMedia WM8505 processor. Here is our forum about this: http://tinyurl.com/easypc-forum And there is also a version of Linux running on the previous models by Cherrypal (for example the Africa) which has a VIA VT8500 instead of the WonderMedia WM8505 at http://tails92.sepwich.com/easypc_linux
Cherrypal, an obscure company that sells $99 netbooks, has dropped Linux in favor of Android in its bottom-shelf PC line.
Soon we'll see companies dropping Linux in favor of MeeGo or Fedora or Ubuntu. Perhaps to be expected from a WinCE site.
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actually, considering Android has made kernel changes that have not been merged upstream, I would consider it a "custom linux".
It runs java, unlike the iPad.
. . . she is one! Make sure that you get one with the memory chip, because there are plenty of Cherry 2000's, but the chips are scarce.
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But most people don't care. We ship on openSuSE & SLED, primarily because that is the only distro that I've been able to run as a desktop consistently for a decade now with the fewest problems. Plus our larger customers can always get enterprise support from Novell if they want it.
But when we're dealing with smaller customers and I tell them that we ship openSuSE they'll ask, "Well I want that Ubuntu." and are often confused or don't believe that there is not much difference between openSuSE Linux and Ubuntu, both are still Linux. At first I tried the ice cream analogy, but now I've found one that works better: the GM analogy. And it should be popular here on Slashdot because it's cars.
The GM Analogy:
Me: "You know how you how a Chevy Pick up and and a GMC Pick up are the same truck with a different Grill?"
Customer: "Yeah."
Me: "Same thing. Ubuntu and SuSE are both linux, just with different grills."
Customer: "Oh, okay. I get it."
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what the hell are you talking about? you said android is just linux, not custom linux. i pointed out that it is somewhat customized, and now (i think) you're claiming that android is NOT linux if i follow your horrendous analogy. wouldn't that refute your original point more than my response?
either way the analogy is absolutely atrocious, since the situations could not be more different. android is currently a customized version of the kernel, which still takes in new changes from upstream but is not merging all of it's changes back. apache took over for ncsa httpd since it was being abandoned by ncsa, so there was nowhere to merge back up to and nothing to get new changes from.
Me: "You know how you how a Chevy Pick up and and a GMC Pick up are the same truck with a different Grill?" Customer: "Yeah." Me: "Same thing. Ubuntu and SuSE are both linux, just with different grills." Customer: "Oh, okay. I get it."
You are an idiot, point blank.
The reality is more like comparing a Chevy pickup with a V8 engine, RWD, a 6 CD changer, and a touch-screen sat-nav... versus a GMC pickup with a V8 engine, a turbocharger, bigger exhaust, AWD, a CD player with MP3 DVD support, a sat-nav with console button controls, leather seats, and a hauling capacity 5000 pounds higher. One gets more fuel mileage, one is a better hauler. One has a 6 CD changer, one can be loaded with a fuckload of MP3s on a DVD. The satnav interfaces are different, one might update OTA and one by DVD.
They're both GM pickups with the same engine though...
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