{"id":872,"date":"2009-01-12T23:32:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T07:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=872"},"modified":"2009-01-13T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T18:31:04","slug":"more-non-x86-subnotebook-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/more-non-x86-subnotebook-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Non-x86 Subnotebook News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s almost time for cheap, non-x86, subnotebooks to hit the mainstream. I just read about the ARM-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/01\/09\/pegatron-and-freescale-team-for-low-power-ultra-cheap-netbooks\/\">Pegatron at Endgadget<\/a>. I wager this won&#8217;t be as difficult to compile software for as the MIPS subnotebook is turning out to be.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdium.com\/\">those Gdium people<\/a> recently announced a program that they affectionately refer to as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdium.com\/group\/58\/home\">One Laptop Per Hacker (OLPH)<\/a>. The idea is to allow interested hackers to obtain pre-release access to Gdium units. I signed up for the program but never bothered to announce it here; hey, anything to reduce potential competition.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I got an email tonight notifying me that I am accepted into the program. I&#8217;m getting cold feet, though, especially over the legal agreement I am expected to sign in order to procure the pre-release unit. If I wasn&#8217;t already in possession of <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/got-a-cheap-mips-subnotebook\/\">my other MIPS subnotebook<\/a>, I would jump right on top of this.<\/p>\n<p>OTOH, this unit will undoubtedly be easier to develop for, since it&#8217;s partially designed for that purpose. Plus, it&#8217;s 64-bit (though I don&#8217;t know if that really means anything in the grand scheme of MIPS chips).<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Should I go for it, for the sake of <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/\">FATE<\/a> and the greater <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> project?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARM netbooks as well as more MIPS netbooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,113,111,125,129],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-arm","tag-gdium","tag-mips","tag-netbook","tag-pegatron"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}