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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 03:55 AM EST |
My Acer C7 really does look like this (Samsung is similar) - must be
lighting!
I did look at the Samsung and (being ARM based rather than
x86) REALLY wanted to like it and to buy one BUT:
- The 2GB of RAM is
soldered in to the motherboard - no upgrades (the Acer C7 takes standard DDR3
PC1333 SODIMMs)
- The 30GB flash disk is soldered into the motherboard
(the Acer C7 takes standard SATA hard disks albeit low profile)
- The CPU
in the Acer C7 is more powerful than the CPU in the Samsung
- The GPU in
the Samsung is supported (but not brilliantly) under Ubuntu (the GPU in the Acer
C7 is a standard Intel Ivy-Bridge GPU supported by open source
drivers)
My idea was to have a laptop that was as 'open source' as
possible - i.e. fully open source BIOS, operating system and drivers. Nearly
there and the Acer C7 is the closest thing I have seen so
far.
--- Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced software like
Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like Microsoft
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