Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Jul 2008 22:28 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about these small laptops (sorry, I don't participate in the hype of calling them netbooks or whatever) - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC. Just like Xandros with the Eee, Mandriva is providing the operating system for the upcoming GDium system, produced by Emtec. The first GDium will be a netbook with a 10", 1024x600 resolution display and a battery life of four hours, weighing in at 1.1kg. The device is powered by the (for us) exotic Chinese Loongson processor, which is based on a MIPS design. Mandriva is working together closely with the GDium team to provide an optimal software experience. Available from September 2008, with a price expected to be round and about EUR 400.
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Well for starters there are things like native flash support. You won't find that on MIPS yet. You can insert any number of other programs that will not compile for the architecture. Basically the same problems that the PPC linux folks have, just an even more obscure platform on the desktop. I'll give you that a lot of things will work and will work just fine, but tell me what is the benefit of the platform? As it is now I see no compelling reason to buy this over an x86 based offering.
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The MIPS cpu interests me on an academic level, but for practical purposes I really don't see this competing with x86 based offerings at that price.