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<Necrosporus>
What do you think about laptops based on wm8505 wm8650 wm8850 and so on?
<Necrosporus>
Also what is the latest chip from them?
<Necrosporus>
I know about wm8850 but it's pretty old by now
<Necrosporus>
Also do anybody own laptops with them still?
<buZz>
they are hell
<buZz>
supercheap though
<Necrosporus>
buZz, do you have laptop with them?
<buZz>
you can pick those netbooks up used for like 10-20 euros
<buZz>
we have one at the hackerspace
<buZz>
takes 4 minutes to boot Windows CE :P
<Necrosporus>
What is a hackerspace?
<buZz>
Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people share their interest in tinkering with technology, meet and work on their projects, and learn from each other.
<Necrosporus>
buZz, I guess it boots android somewhat faster
<buZz>
doubt it
<Necrosporus>
Physical place?
<buZz>
android has way higher requirements
<buZz>
yes, not virtual
<buZz>
you cant have laptops at virtual spaces, obviously :P
<Necrosporus>
In what country is it?
<buZz>
they are in all countries
<buZz>
ours is in wageningen, netherlands
<buZz>
actually, i think those wm8xxx chips arent even ARM
<buZz>
they're MIPS
<Necrosporus>
I'm pretty sure they are ARM
<buZz>
ah, indeed , ARM9
<Necrosporus>
buZz, you are mixing them upp with jz*
<buZz>
so ARMv4 , i guess?
<buZz>
pretty old
<Necrosporus>
I guess it's ARMv5 though
<Necrosporus>
Do you know how to test that?
<buZz>
ok, so will require a lot of compiling to get to work ;)
<buZz>
read the datasheet? :D
<Necrosporus>
Where do you buy used arm netbooks?
<buZz>
ebay etc
<Necrosporus>
aliexpress has no laptops with wm chips anymore seems
<Necrosporus>
Alright, so what ARM based laptop would you recomend nowadays?
<buZz>
pyra
<buZz>
chromebook
<Necrosporus>
wm8* are probably not produced anymore
<buZz>
pandora
<buZz>
zipit z2
<Necrosporus>
Pandora is even older than those arm laptops
<buZz>
but a way faster cpu
<buZz>
ARMv7
<buZz>
and more ram, more storage, better interfaces
<buZz>
those wm8505 laptops seems to typically have 128MB ram, and a 300mhz cpu
<Necrosporus>
Zipit Z2 has intel PXA, it's really ancient
<buZz>
but insanely cute
<buZz>
and runs mainline linux
<Necrosporus>
buZz, wm8650 have 256M ram and 800MHz CPU and usually 2-4G nvram
<buZz>
ok. so still poor
<Necrosporus>
wm8850 is faster
<buZz>
ARMv5 at 800mhz is lightyears slower than 1Ghz ARMv7
<buZz>
ah, pandora has 512MB ram, took a while to find
<buZz>
pyra will have 4GB ram
<Necrosporus>
WM8850 one core Cortex-A9, not sure what ARMv... it is, 512 RAM
<buZz>
also, pyra allows cpu upgrades
<buZz>
cortex a9 is armv7
<Necrosporus>
So, wm8850 should be as fast as pandora
<buZz>
well kinda doubt that, probably doesnt have NEON or GPU acceleration :)
<buZz>
TI chips are really quite good
<Necrosporus>
But 8850 is about 5 years newer
<buZz>
benefit of pyra & pandora is mostly that they have a huge community building optimized software for it