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timrowledge

[squeak-dev] InkMedia mini-laptop ARM11 machine

Stumbled across this little OLPC-ish machine this afternoon. Linux, ARM1136, 256Mb ram etc. Apparently ~$300

http://ink-media.com/index.html

Should be a nice little cheap, light Squeak machine.

tim

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Michael van der Gulik-2

Re: [squeak-dev] InkMedia mini-laptop ARM11 machine

On 2/28/08, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:

Stumbled across this little OLPC-ish machine this afternoon. Linux, ARM1136, 256Mb ram etc. Apparently ~$300

<a href="http://ink-media.com/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ink-media.com/index.html

Should be a nice little cheap, light Squeak machine.

Nice, non-idiotic CPU architecture, decent amount of memory and no moving parts (yay!), and it appears to be Linux based, but:

* No "Purchase" button to be found on their website? Vapourware?
* Highest screen resolution is 1024x768 with the built-in LCD disabled (!?). I don't believe you can still buy LCD monitors that do that natively.

Gulik.

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Bert Freudenberg

Re: [squeak-dev] InkMedia mini-laptop ARM11 machine

On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:26 , Michael van der Gulik wrote:

>
>
> On 2/28/08, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Stumbled across this little OLPC-ish machine this afternoon. Linux,
> ARM1136, 256Mb ram etc. Apparently ~$300
>
> http://ink-media.com/index.html
>
> Should be a nice little cheap, light Squeak machine.
>
>
> Nice, non-idiotic CPU architecture, decent amount of memory and no
> moving parts (yay!), and it appears to be Linux based, but:
>
> * No "Purchase" button to be found on their website? Vapourware?
> * Highest screen resolution is 1024x768 with the built-in LCD
> disabled (!?). I don't believe you can still buy LCD monitors that
> do that natively.

And closed:

http://ink-media.com/Ink-Specs.html

- Bert -

Niko Matsakis

Re: [squeak-dev] InkMedia mini-laptop ARM11 machine

May I humbly suggest:

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm

I have not used it myself, however, though I am thinking seriously of
getting one. I'd be very interested to know if it runs Squeak well,
as one of my main concerns is how well I would be able to use it for
development. Probably it can't handle Eclipse, but I figure lighter-
weight tools like emacs or squeak would probably work quite well,
apart from the small screen size.

Niko

Pavel Krivanek

Re: [squeak-dev] InkMedia mini-laptop ARM11 machine

I only tried to run it shortly on one eee (with VM from the standard
Debian package). This is the (average) benchmark result:

76555023 bytecodes/sec; 1344167 sends/sec

-- Pavel

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Niko Matsakis <[hidden email]> wrote:

> May I humbly suggest:
>
> http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm
>
> I have not used it myself, however, though I am thinking seriously of
> getting one. I'd be very interested to know if it runs Squeak well,
> as one of my main concerns is how well I would be able to use it for
> development. Probably it can't handle Eclipse, but I figure lighter-
> weight tools like emacs or squeak would probably work quite well,
> apart from the small screen size.
>
>
> Niko
>
>
>