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FOSS netbook

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-17 16:56

I'm looking for a netbook with the following characteristics:
- dirt-cheap (under the 200 USD mark)
- screen size between 7 and 11 inch
- preferably ARM-based CPU (but x86 is fine too)
- computational power at least half of an Intel Atom N450
- at least 128MiB of RAM
- at least 2GiB of nonvolatile storage OR SD-card reader
- over 6 hours battery life
- no binary blobs required for operation (I don't care if 3d and/or video acceleration require binary blobs, I don't use those anyway)
- open source firmware or "BIOS"

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 3:17

>>10
That's the one.

I didn't buy from there but I picked up something that looked very similar (down to the box art) in Shenzhen for 400RMB. Ask them if you're curious and want to buy one. I get ~6 hours from the battery with light use under XP; I think it's regular 18650 cells inside so it shouldn't be too difficult to replace when it wears out.

>>24
It has an Award BIOS (might be pirated, just like the XP it came with) so I don't know much about coreboot support but it seems there are people working on a vortex86 port for it. As I said the docs are open and the same SoC is used in a lot of embedded SBCs.

It is slow. Performance is comparable to a 300MHz Pentium II. If you want something better get an Atom. Don't even think about gaming on it --- except maybe old DOS stuff.

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