Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/19/25 5:08 PM, D wrote:

  On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:42:25 +0100, D wrote:
 

I remember the Eee PC. It was very cute! People always asked me how I
could stand working on a 11.6" laptop (Macbook air), but I kind of got
used to it.

 I wanted something I could throw into a motorcycle saddlebag and not worry
about so I snapped one up when they came out. I sidelined it when it
couldn't handle WSA2. Last year I put Q4OS on it.
 https://q4os.org/
 It took a couple of tries when I got too greedy with what I selected for
the install. Trinity worked. The original Xandros distro is discontinued.

 I love the fact that old computers are still perfectly usable today! Sadly the batteries on my (or now, my fathers) two macbook airs are too bad for me to use them for business.
 One of them now serves as an audio player with some kind of USB amplifier thing my father bought in a hifi-store so it can drive his speakers. Works great!

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 An "old/weak" WINDOWS laptop becomes a perfectly good
 LINUX laptop. So, don't be in a huge hurry to put yer
 old tech into the bin. It can live on.

All of them run linux. I wouldn't touch a windows laptop with a 10 ft pole + rubber gloves! ;)

 Mac ... um ... you're probably stuck with their OS - but
 even then they can be relegated to 2nd-tier services.

Runs linux. No problem there! =)

 Batteries ... check around. It's surprising how many odd
 laptop batts you can find. Had to replace one in an old
 laptop recently and the name-brand batt was on Amazon at
 a good price.

This is good advice!