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Gadgets on parade at CeBit (ZDNet)
ZDNet looks
forward to CeBit. "CeBit is huge, and thousands of technology
companies will cram into almost 30 halls, bringing everything from fax
machines and printers to smart phones and dual-core chip-based
notebooks. We can't predict everything that will grab the headlines and get
people talking at the show, but it's clear that there are some key themes
and products to watch out for."
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Via may announce their new line of C7 mini-itx on cebit Posted Mar 7, 2006 7:35 UTC (Tue) by fredrik (subscriber, #232) [Link] As a mini-itx user, I've waited for the perfect upgrade some years, I had good hopes for the dual cpu 310DP, but it turned out both scarce and expensive. But there has been lingering rumors about new mini-itx with the C7 processor[0]. The rumors also indicate that Via will be announcing their new lineup on CeBit[1]. And it seems that via from day one has support for linux.
Lets hope so... =)
[0] http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=32&...
mini-itx upgrade Posted Mar 7, 2006 10:28 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I found the perfect "upgrade" last year, in the Mac Mini. It is small, almost silent and very well engineered -- for 500 € you used to get a 1.25 processor perfectly suited for multimedia purposes. Sadly support in Linux is not as good as it might be, in particular for the Airport Extreme (wireless networking) card. Even more sadly, it's over -- new Intel Core versions are much more expensive, and I bet noise specs are not stellar.
mini-itx upgrade Posted Mar 7, 2006 12:41 UTC (Tue) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link] Every piece of hardware in my Mac Mini (1.5 Ghz) is supported under theUbuntu development release. I run Linux on it full-time and I've never had a better Linux box. The wireless started working a couple of months ago (it suddenly showed up as eth0 after a reboot, which displaced my ethernet to eth1 ;) I was also genuinely surprised when embedded quicktime on a website started playing in Konqueror!
mini-itx upgrade Posted Mar 7, 2006 13:11 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Good to know. Is sleep (suspend to disk or whatever) working too?
mini-itx upgrade Posted Mar 7, 2006 14:12 UTC (Tue) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link] Well, it does sleep (at least the monitor turns off), but I don't know ifthat's a hardware or a software function. I haven't tried software suspend, but its so quiet, I barely know its on in the first place. It was a bit disappointing to discover that the Ethernet MAC supports Gigabit, but Apple stuck a cheap Broadcom 10/100 PHY on there: [ 50.035561] eth1: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:11:24:d3:36:1c [ 50.035570] eth1: Found BCM5221 PHY The other bit if weirdness is that the real-time clock is _way_ inaccurate. I think this has something to do with the delay loop being calculated incorrectly, but I sync to my server with NTP anyway so its no big deal. It lends new emphasis on the 'bogo' portion of 'bogomips': bcook@mini:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1499.999994MHz revision : 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips : 82.94
mac mini and bogomips Posted Mar 7, 2006 15:14 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] According to Ben Herrenschmidt on the debian-powerpc list:With recent kernels, when build with ARCH=powerpc, we now use the hardware timebase instead of bogus processor loops for short timings. Thus our bogomips value is no longer the speed at which the processor runs empty loops, but the actual processor timebase value as obtained after calibration at boot.
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