On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:11 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Seems hard to believe that with such a low price point, AMD will
deliver
optimal pricing and that the target CPU throughput is not excessive with
x86. Isn't it better for the longer term to only weakly couple the
concept of the cheap laptop to a processor arch?
The choice of i386 was apparently largely influenced by the availability
of a real FPU; something which wasn't really available in the same
price/performance range on other embedded CPUs that were considered.
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dwmw2