On 30 January 2018 at 18:04, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 29/01/18 09:32 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:17:20PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
My benchmark for processor success is: Does several of Asus,Supermicro,Tyan,Gigabyte et al make a motherboard for this CPU.
I second this. If I can't buy it, then I don't care. This is true for cars and computer.
Ditto: Unobtanium isn't very useful (;-))
The sparc laptop I used to have was deliberately designed to fit on a board that was identical to a Dell product. When the screen died it was swapped for a Dell part. Ditto the battery, when it got wimpy.
I recalling seeing the SPARC and Alpha laptops at conferences; while that was pretty cool, they were ultra-pricey, and yes, indeed, pretty much "unobtanium." I was pretty happy when I found I could buy a Chrome laptop running ARM; I have never done a full switch over running "full blown Linux on it"; it remains as a Chromebook installation, albeit with Crouton on top (which is very likable). I'm not aware of a MIPS-based laptop (which isn't a proof of nonexistence); it was a nice second-best that there are plenty of routers running MIPS. I wish that the Cavium MIPS/Octeon had gotten more deployed; being able to have a server with a bunch of them aboard would be pretty useful. A desktop is nice; so also are servers... -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"