Re:Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Lin...
by nottorp on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:32AM
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> The M1 came out in 2020?
... but i bet it had been in development for 5+ years before that. Not to mention it's an iteration of the earlier Apple phone chips.
> ARM support is part of the puzzle but the architecture lags so badly.
One thing to note about this laptop is the storage is eMMC. Even whatever's in the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi only has one pcie lane, and they didn't bother including a M.2 nvme slot for storage?
They're all still in the phone with crap storage mindset. It's not so relevant how fast your CPU is (and it's probably reasonably fast) if the software runs off storage that's slower and has more latency than sata...
... but i bet it had been in development for 5+ years before that. Not to mention it's an iteration of the earlier Apple phone chips.
> ARM support is part of the puzzle but the architecture lags so badly.
One thing to note about this laptop is the storage is eMMC. Even whatever's in the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi only has one pcie lane, and they didn't bother including a M.2 nvme slot for storage?
They're all still in the phone with crap storage mindset. It's not so relevant how fast your CPU is (and it's probably reasonably fast) if the software runs off storage that's slower and has more latency than sata...