codemonkey.org.uk » MIPS http://www.codemonkey.org.uk Dave Jones' Linux & opensource stuff. Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:33:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Alpha400 netbook. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/01/02/alpha400-netbook/ http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/01/02/alpha400-netbook/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:42:34 +0000 davej http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/?p=52 Alpha400 netbook. is a post from: codemonkey.org.uk

No related posts.]]> I think that this is the cheapest Linux netbook around. The kicker being, it uses a MIPS CPU, so you’re basically stuck with the OS that it comes with, (or possibly debian). The factory OS is also 2.4 kernel based. I wonder how much of it works in 2.6, and also I wonder how much of their 2.4 varies from mainline 2.4.

CPU asides, the rest of the hardware isn’t spectacular either. 128MB of RAM is pitiful these days. Just 1GB of flash too.

“Supports File Sizes up to 8 MB” is kind of.. bizarre.

Despite the miserable hardware, a year ago, this would have piqued my curiosity, and at $150 I probably would have picked one up. Now though, for just a little more, you can get an eeepc, or other netbook which is far more useful.

Nice to see the pricepoint getting lower all the time though. Getting closer to the mythical $100 laptop, but the hardware still sucks.

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