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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Huh? Iirc, for laptops, Intel has an ultra-low-voltage line with 10W TDP.
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I was quoting laptop CPUs... Atleast at the few build-your-own laptop makers I checked.
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True, but for some people an Atom and 20GB of storage doesn't cut it, albeit, I have yet to see more mainstream notebooks with 1TB drives. I remember reading an article saying there were places where netbooks had a 30% return rate, most likely because people expected more power from them. True, a lot of this is mostly because society's been trained with "I want" instead of "I need", but it's hard to change a lifetime's worth of training overnight.
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This is the first, non-atom(celeron mobile 900MHz) one... with 4gb ssd.
As for the 30% return rate it was that yeah... People expected a full blown laptop but I consider this mainly a point in failure for not being educated by the $eller.
I used this as my main machine for a year. It was able to run bzflag(
http://www.bzflag.org) at an acceptable level and I was able to do everything I needed with it which in my case is a lot of terminal work, ssh, web browsing, image editing etc...
Of course I supplemented this with 8gb usb flash drive and server side storage for things I didn't need or was able to access through a 3g connection.
I don't believe general purpose computing(GPC) will go much farther I more think appliance like devices like an ebook reader, music player, game consoles and such is the way to go. There might be one or two GPC machines per home and used to move stuff to appliance devices. And a lot more put in the way of network storage and such.
But that's just how I think I guess.
I tend to access documents through various remote file systems(sshfs, nfs and such) or in case of my mom's laptop it's using unison to sync from the ftp server to her laptop.
There is no real reason to have super powerful GPCs. A game console with a keyboard and mouse and ability to hook any viewport would work just as well for playing games than anything else. Not to mention it would be powered off when nobody is using it.