alt Hacker NewsI'd love a cheap $100 netbook with its speed close to the specs Intel Atom n270 one or similar.
Not everyone needs a 16GB machine to compile huge current C++ projects.
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snvzz • 10/12/2024
>Not everyone needs a 16GB machine to compile huge current C++ projects.
These days 64GB is barely sufficient for that.
We really need to switch to mold linker.
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pjmlp • 10/12/2024
Or Rust, Android,....
crackez • 10/12/2024
Vulkan shaders have entered the chat...
Oh, interesting.
I was going to say nothing in the RISC-V world is comparable to the N100 yet, at any price, but it looks like the N100 is anywhere from 10 to 20 times faster than the N270.
Geekbench 6 doesn't have any N270 results but it has a couple of Atom 230 results, and other sources indicate those two are very similar.
So, ok, on Geekbench a single core of the JH7110 comes in a bit faster than the Atom 230. And it's got four of them. You can get a Milk-V Mars CM with a 1.5 GHz JH7110 with 2 GB RAM for $34. You should be able to build a decent little netbook around that for $100. It's compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4 CM, so if there is a suitable netbook enclosure for the Pi 4 CM then it should work.
Otherwise I think the ClockworkPi DevTerm R-01 would be the closest that actually exist at the moment. The single 1.0 GHz C906 core is a bit slower and the price is unfortunately $239.
But the MuseBook for $299 is much much better.