No... while the company supporting Linux is a HUGE plus in my book, I would NEVER touch HP. Crappy hardware, and they shaft you on inkjets more than most companies. NEVER again.
(Not-so-proud owner of an HP Pavilion 6535 that's been through TWO mobo failures, an HP color printer that I forget the model of that's burned through many $$$ in ink and was already having problems with paper feed and printouts not being garbage when I last used it (replaced with a nice Minolta PagePro 1250W, which just got replaced by a Minolta magicolor 2300DL that crapped out today - three or four days in, and no abuse to it))
I'm split between an IBM R51 with a 1.5GHz Pentium M, 14.1 XGA or 15 SXGA (or better), and 512MB RAM, with an Orinoco or something and a BLANK hard drive, a Medion MD42100 (NOT the German model - the US model is a Centrino, so I'd sell the WiFi card - I don't like the idea of running ipw2200 drivers), or an Averatec 3220H1, with a 256MB RAM upgrade (or if I can find it cheap enough, the 3225, which is the same thing with 512MB RAM).
Model Ms... Make the KB a Dvorak layout (or even a random layout), but with a QWERTY keymap, and you've thrown off all hunt-and-peckers. Leave it as a QWERTY layout, but make it a Dvorak or random keymap (harder, because you have to relearn touch typing), and you've thrown off EVERYONE, especially if you've used a random keymap.
Intel's got a design team in Israel that still knows how to make decent CPUs. They've designed the Pentium M. Intel's had to do a 360 from their old "GHz is all that matters" strategy, to a model number strategy (that they've botched - larger cache and LV/ULV is too heavily weighted, and you can't compare two chips, even if they're in the same series, like a Celeron M and a Celeron D).
One and the same. The "CMOS" in your system is a memory chip made using a CMOS process. It was called CMOS because the first systems to have it had mostly NMOS chips, and a CMOS chip was the only type of chip that was low enough power to be run by a battery. Here are the basic chip technologies:
PMOS - P-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (slow, high power) NMOS - N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (fast, high-power) CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (a sort of cross between PMOS and NMOS, fast, low-power, small)
They actually make the first chipsets for a platform (Slot A, Socket 940, etc...) It's just they don't want to KEEP making chipsets, and they want to focus on CPUs, so they tell nVidia and VIA to try to make good chipsets.
I'm using a PS/2 Model M via a PS/2-AT adaptor. I COULD just obtain an AT cable for the REAL Model M (not that lightweight Lexmark POS), but this solution works, and only cost $1.50, as opposed to at least $5 to track down the AT cable or $3 to get another Model M with one.
Actually, the XScale PXA255 is the direct successor to the StrongARM SA-2110 (aka StrongARM 110) used in the Newts. WiFi and BT aren't already in the Newton - drivers have been hacked up for it.
Actually, the Zire 21, an ARM-based Palm OS 5.2.1 device, is VERY similar at the core to your Tungsten T3, an ARM-based Palm OS 5.2.1 device. The hardware IS fairly different, but not totally different. The Tungsten does have some stuff added in via hacks in the OS that the Zire doesn't. The Zire (no model number) has been discontinued for a while, and it was the last DragonBall-based Palm OS 4.x device (not counting the older Treos).
I think that something with one of these (Intel PXA27x), 64MB RAM, one of these (Cornice Storage Element, 2.0GB in the highest-end model, 1.5 in a mid-range model, 1.0 in a low-end model), a digital camera, and a WiFi card would sell QUITE nicely, especially with a nice 320x480 color display (maybe OLED will be cheap enough by the time Apple would get around to engineering one) - it wouldn't be a resolution increase, though - the MP2x00 used a 320x480 16 gray display.
I've been thinking - what would a Newton iPad 3000 with a PXA270, a 1.5GB Cornice drive, a built-in digital camera, and integrated AirPort do in the marketplace?
I'm thinking if it is VERY revolutionary, it could stand a chance against Palms and Pocket PCs. And, I don't think it would be that much bigger than a large Palm.
VIA didn't make VX mobos (unless FIC made VX mobos, but those were probably NOT flaky) - they have nothing to do with PC Chips except that they sell chipsets to them.
BTW, I've heard RF noises through the system speaker on keypresses or mouse movements on the following systems when either totally locked up or near it: Micro Center PowerSpec 1660 (166MHz Cyrix MediaGX - the processor that made me hate Cyrix with a passion) with Windows 95 OSR2.1 (the one with USB, but this box didn't have USB) HP Pavilion 6535 (the mobo is a Trigem Cognac if you want a mobo company to go after) with Windows 98 SE and a shitload of HP spyware
The PowerSpec didn't get Linux or a modern version of Windows (HDD died, and I threw it out - no use replacing the HDD in a box with a screwy CD-ROM and noisy PSU, not to mention uselessly slow CPU), but the HP did (Windows 2000), and I NEVER heard the noise since. However, the Trigem Cognac IS still a POS. Attaching a KHyperMedia KHCRW522452 as secondary master with a Seagate 8.4GB hard drive (sorry, no model number) as primary master did not work well at all - the secondary channel of the IDE controller did not work any more (so I had to put it as primary slave), and attempting a graphics mode that was ANYTHING out of the ordinary would kill the i810's graphics controller after killing the secondary IDE channel. And, apparently the SuSE 9.0 Live CD attempts one of those modes. Another problem I've had was the mouse not working when I booted Win2K. SP4 MOSTLY fixed it, but it still appeared occasionally. Jabbing the Standby key on the HP crapboard and then jabbing the Power button on the case once it went into standby USUALLY fixed it.
The installer that you're looking for is ut-goty-install-436.run. BTW, when that UT GOTY CD was used on Windows, did it give you a "Game of the Year Edition" line below the Unreal Tournament logo when you hit ESC to get out of the intro movie? If not, it was one of those slap-a-game-of-the-year-sticker-on-a-non-GOTY-CD versions. Quite misleading. Otherwise, they didn't include the second CD because it seems to only be a few bonus maps (that are on the first CD) and maybe the Linux binaries.
The minimum spec is NOT always the bare minimum. Unreal Tournament GOTY is known to run on a 233MHz Pentium MMX (OK, so even with a nice TNT2 (32MB, w00t!), it only gets 10FPS, but I know it works, at least on Wine (which might hurt my performance but help the likelyhood of it running on an older processor than it's designed for - and yes, I know there's a Linux version, but I don't have CD 2)), when it requires a 233MHz Pentium II. Windows XP is known to run on a 20MHz Pentium (it was in an underclocking contest) with 32MB RAM, and a 63MHz (again underclocked) Pentium Overdrive with 18MB RAM (a bug in WinXP means it can only display down to 20 in the Computer Properties), even though it supposedly requires a Pentium II 233 with 64MB RAM.
Heh, my computer is MUCH noisier, and it's an old Pentium I system. A large 120mm exhaust fan, a crappy 80mm fan in the PSU, and a 40mm fan on the CPU. The 120 is probably the noisiest, but I don't think they're undervolted at all...
Of course, my Quantum Bigfoot CY probably dwarfs any of the fans in noise - ditto on the seek noise of my Seagate 8.4GB (however, I've NEVER had a problem with a Seagate - I've seen Deathstars, Western Digitals (anyone got a derogatory name for WD?), and a Maxtor (it was Sudden Maxtor Death Syndrome, too) die, but never a Seagate).
You might be wrong there, based on the fact that a Pentium M DOES walk all over a Celeron. The Pentium M is a revised P6 core, and the Pentium 3 (the previous P6 chip), while it can't come close to the P-M, would probably give a Celeron a run for it's money if it would ramp up to that clock speed (that would be one hell of a stretch, though - it appears to only be capable of 1.4GHz - if Intel would put it on 90nm, and we could liquid nitrogen cool it, though). Seeing as there wasn't much difference in the pre-P-M P6 chips (PPro, P2, P3) in performance (there was some, mostly because of cache arrangements), and the PPro, while it was better in 32-bit that the Pentium, wasn't much better, and it sucked balls in 16-bit. I think a theoretical 3GHz Pentium I might just have a chance against a Northwood Celeron (although the Northwood wouldn't need LN2 or 90nm to get the job done). Now, a Preshott Celery? I don't know about that.
A lot of the architectural "enhancements" in later processors, especially NetBurst chips, and to a lesser extent Pentium Ms, are to either increase the max clock speed or counteract the disadvantages of making the changes to increase the clock speed. So, a REVISED Pentium I with those second changes (like an improved branch predictor, etc., etc.) could definitely give a Celery a run for it's money, even at a lower clock speed.
Which is why we need Whitefield (multicore Dothan Xeon), or even a single-core Xeon M based on Dothan.
Blade servers are already using the Pentium M to cut down on heat output and power consumption (remember, those Xeons have to get power to throw the heat).
The Opteron HE/EE is probably the best choice if you need low power multiprocessing, and it's close between the Oppie and the P-M for low-power uniprocessing (the Pentium M only puts out 24.5W in it's highest power model, the 1.7GHz Banias, and the new Dothan chips only put out 21W, even the 2GHz chip, thanks to 90nm).
BTW, I don't think the motherboard they show in the parts list is the motherboard they used - it's a "very old" Super 7 ATX board with AGP, but they used a 486SX-25.
As you can see in the third page, they're not using that mobo - the one they're REALLY using has a green PCB, whereas the one in the parts list had a brown PCB.
Anyway, a 1000% overclock... It was indirectly alcohol-cooled.
So put some alcohol in it. Just remember NOT to run the thing at 10x it's rated FSB while drunk on the coolant, as those poor souls found out the hard way;-)
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No... while the company supporting Linux is a HUGE plus in my book, I would NEVER touch HP. Crappy hardware, and they shaft you on inkjets more than most companies. NEVER again.
(Not-so-proud owner of an HP Pavilion 6535 that's been through TWO mobo failures, an HP color printer that I forget the model of that's burned through many $$$ in ink and was already having problems with paper feed and printouts not being garbage when I last used it (replaced with a nice Minolta PagePro 1250W, which just got replaced by a Minolta magicolor 2300DL that crapped out today - three or four days in, and no abuse to it))
Also, ipw2200 (and ipw2100 for the older 802.11b card) allow use of Intel's WiFi cards on Linux. They're only 0.2, but...
Intel WiFi support had to be BEGGED for for a about a year.
I'm split between an IBM R51 with a 1.5GHz Pentium M, 14.1 XGA or 15 SXGA (or better), and 512MB RAM, with an Orinoco or something and a BLANK hard drive, a Medion MD42100 (NOT the German model - the US model is a Centrino, so I'd sell the WiFi card - I don't like the idea of running ipw2200 drivers), or an Averatec 3220H1, with a 256MB RAM upgrade (or if I can find it cheap enough, the 3225, which is the same thing with 512MB RAM).
Model Ms... Make the KB a Dvorak layout (or even a random layout), but with a QWERTY keymap, and you've thrown off all hunt-and-peckers. Leave it as a QWERTY layout, but make it a Dvorak or random keymap (harder, because you have to relearn touch typing), and you've thrown off EVERYONE, especially if you've used a random keymap.
Intel's got a design team in Israel that still knows how to make decent CPUs. They've designed the Pentium M. Intel's had to do a 360 from their old "GHz is all that matters" strategy, to a model number strategy (that they've botched - larger cache and LV/ULV is too heavily weighted, and you can't compare two chips, even if they're in the same series, like a Celeron M and a Celeron D).
One and the same. The "CMOS" in your system is a memory chip made using a CMOS process. It was called CMOS because the first systems to have it had mostly NMOS chips, and a CMOS chip was the only type of chip that was low enough power to be run by a battery. Here are the basic chip technologies:
PMOS - P-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (slow, high power)
NMOS - N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (fast, high-power)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (a sort of cross between PMOS and NMOS, fast, low-power, small)
You forgot PowerNow and Cool 'n Quiet, AMD's versions. CnQ is a desktop version of PN, which has been around for a while in laptops.
EM64T appears to be a marketing name, IA32e is an architecture name (Intel sells IA32 chips as x86, after all).
SpeedStep? Good - Intel's NetBurst chips needed it ;-)
On a more serious note, it looks like the Xeon is going to be a better Oppie competitor - x86-64, SpeedStep (read: Cool & Quiet), etc.
They actually make the first chipsets for a platform (Slot A, Socket 940, etc...) It's just they don't want to KEEP making chipsets, and they want to focus on CPUs, so they tell nVidia and VIA to try to make good chipsets.
I'm using a PS/2 Model M via a PS/2-AT adaptor. I COULD just obtain an AT cable for the REAL Model M (not that lightweight Lexmark POS), but this solution works, and only cost $1.50, as opposed to at least $5 to track down the AT cable or $3 to get another Model M with one.
You want a Canon NoteJet, but I can tell that the NJ and the NJII are 486s, and I suspect the NJIII is too.
Actually, the XScale PXA255 is the direct successor to the StrongARM SA-2110 (aka StrongARM 110) used in the Newts. WiFi and BT aren't already in the Newton - drivers have been hacked up for it.
Actually, the Zire 21, an ARM-based Palm OS 5.2.1 device, is VERY similar at the core to your Tungsten T3, an ARM-based Palm OS 5.2.1 device. The hardware IS fairly different, but not totally different. The Tungsten does have some stuff added in via hacks in the OS that the Zire doesn't. The Zire (no model number) has been discontinued for a while, and it was the last DragonBall-based Palm OS 4.x device (not counting the older Treos).
I think that something with one of these (Intel PXA27x), 64MB RAM, one of these (Cornice Storage Element, 2.0GB in the highest-end model, 1.5 in a mid-range model, 1.0 in a low-end model), a digital camera, and a WiFi card would sell QUITE nicely, especially with a nice 320x480 color display (maybe OLED will be cheap enough by the time Apple would get around to engineering one) - it wouldn't be a resolution increase, though - the MP2x00 used a 320x480 16 gray display.
I've been thinking - what would a Newton iPad 3000 with a PXA270, a 1.5GB Cornice drive, a built-in digital camera, and integrated AirPort do in the marketplace?
I'm thinking if it is VERY revolutionary, it could stand a chance against Palms and Pocket PCs. And, I don't think it would be that much bigger than a large Palm.
VIA didn't make VX mobos (unless FIC made VX mobos, but those were probably NOT flaky) - they have nothing to do with PC Chips except that they sell chipsets to them.
BTW, I've heard RF noises through the system speaker on keypresses or mouse movements on the following systems when either totally locked up or near it:
Micro Center PowerSpec 1660 (166MHz Cyrix MediaGX - the processor that made me hate Cyrix with a passion) with Windows 95 OSR2.1 (the one with USB, but this box didn't have USB)
HP Pavilion 6535 (the mobo is a Trigem Cognac if you want a mobo company to go after) with Windows 98 SE and a shitload of HP spyware
The PowerSpec didn't get Linux or a modern version of Windows (HDD died, and I threw it out - no use replacing the HDD in a box with a screwy CD-ROM and noisy PSU, not to mention uselessly slow CPU), but the HP did (Windows 2000), and I NEVER heard the noise since. However, the Trigem Cognac IS still a POS. Attaching a KHyperMedia KHCRW522452 as secondary master with a Seagate 8.4GB hard drive (sorry, no model number) as primary master did not work well at all - the secondary channel of the IDE controller did not work any more (so I had to put it as primary slave), and attempting a graphics mode that was ANYTHING out of the ordinary would kill the i810's graphics controller after killing the secondary IDE channel. And, apparently the SuSE 9.0 Live CD attempts one of those modes. Another problem I've had was the mouse not working when I booted Win2K. SP4 MOSTLY fixed it, but it still appeared occasionally. Jabbing the Standby key on the HP crapboard and then jabbing the Power button on the case once it went into standby USUALLY fixed it.
Moral of that story: Don't buy HPaq.
The installer that you're looking for is ut-goty-install-436.run. BTW, when that UT GOTY CD was used on Windows, did it give you a "Game of the Year Edition" line below the Unreal Tournament logo when you hit ESC to get out of the intro movie? If not, it was one of those slap-a-game-of-the-year-sticker-on-a-non-GOTY-CD versions. Quite misleading. Otherwise, they didn't include the second CD because it seems to only be a few bonus maps (that are on the first CD) and maybe the Linux binaries.
The minimum spec is NOT always the bare minimum. Unreal Tournament GOTY is known to run on a 233MHz Pentium MMX (OK, so even with a nice TNT2 (32MB, w00t!), it only gets 10FPS, but I know it works, at least on Wine (which might hurt my performance but help the likelyhood of it running on an older processor than it's designed for - and yes, I know there's a Linux version, but I don't have CD 2)), when it requires a 233MHz Pentium II. Windows XP is known to run on a 20MHz Pentium (it was in an underclocking contest) with 32MB RAM, and a 63MHz (again underclocked) Pentium Overdrive with 18MB RAM (a bug in WinXP means it can only display down to 20 in the Computer Properties), even though it supposedly requires a Pentium II 233 with 64MB RAM.
Heh, my computer is MUCH noisier, and it's an old Pentium I system. A large 120mm exhaust fan, a crappy 80mm fan in the PSU, and a 40mm fan on the CPU. The 120 is probably the noisiest, but I don't think they're undervolted at all...
Of course, my Quantum Bigfoot CY probably dwarfs any of the fans in noise - ditto on the seek noise of my Seagate 8.4GB (however, I've NEVER had a problem with a Seagate - I've seen Deathstars, Western Digitals (anyone got a derogatory name for WD?), and a Maxtor (it was Sudden Maxtor Death Syndrome, too) die, but never a Seagate).
You might be wrong there, based on the fact that a Pentium M DOES walk all over a Celeron. The Pentium M is a revised P6 core, and the Pentium 3 (the previous P6 chip), while it can't come close to the P-M, would probably give a Celeron a run for it's money if it would ramp up to that clock speed (that would be one hell of a stretch, though - it appears to only be capable of 1.4GHz - if Intel would put it on 90nm, and we could liquid nitrogen cool it, though). Seeing as there wasn't much difference in the pre-P-M P6 chips (PPro, P2, P3) in performance (there was some, mostly because of cache arrangements), and the PPro, while it was better in 32-bit that the Pentium, wasn't much better, and it sucked balls in 16-bit. I think a theoretical 3GHz Pentium I might just have a chance against a Northwood Celeron (although the Northwood wouldn't need LN2 or 90nm to get the job done). Now, a Preshott Celery? I don't know about that.
A lot of the architectural "enhancements" in later processors, especially NetBurst chips, and to a lesser extent Pentium Ms, are to either increase the max clock speed or counteract the disadvantages of making the changes to increase the clock speed. So, a REVISED Pentium I with those second changes (like an improved branch predictor, etc., etc.) could definitely give a Celery a run for it's money, even at a lower clock speed.
Which is why we need Whitefield (multicore Dothan Xeon), or even a single-core Xeon M based on Dothan.
Blade servers are already using the Pentium M to cut down on heat output and power consumption (remember, those Xeons have to get power to throw the heat).
The Opteron HE/EE is probably the best choice if you need low power multiprocessing, and it's close between the Oppie and the P-M for low-power uniprocessing (the Pentium M only puts out 24.5W in it's highest power model, the 1.7GHz Banias, and the new Dothan chips only put out 21W, even the 2GHz chip, thanks to 90nm).
BTW, I don't think the motherboard they show in the parts list is the motherboard they used - it's a "very old" Super 7 ATX board with AGP, but they used a 486SX-25.
As you can see in the third page, they're not using that mobo - the one they're REALLY using has a green PCB, whereas the one in the parts list had a brown PCB.
Anyway, a 1000% overclock... It was indirectly alcohol-cooled.
So put some alcohol in it. Just remember NOT to run the thing at 10x it's rated FSB while drunk on the coolant, as those poor souls found out the hard way ;-)