- cross-posted to:
- hardware@lemmy.world
- riscv@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- hardware@lemmy.world
- riscv@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/174306
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If someone could spit out some nice high-performance RISC-V CPU with an integrated open-source and most importantly mainlined GPU (which also includes a video encoder/decoder which could handle 4k 264, 265* and AV1) … I’d be SO happy…
- Yes, I know the intellectual property/digital restrictions management cesspit would do everything they could to prevent this from happening. One can dream, though.
does it run Linux? I’m waiting for a good low power CPU laptop that I can install a standard distro on. preferably arch…
It does run Linux, but it would probably more precise to say it walks Linux.
Check the destro of your choice to see if it’s supported.
Not just Linux, but also FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Not sure about NetBSD.
This could be cool if:
- battery life is fantastic
- form factor is good (my preference: 14")
- performance is good enough (better than RPi5 ideally, or at least on par)
- price is reasonable - <$1k
- marketing is appropriate - don’t imply gaming performance when games won’t work
I don’t need much from a laptop anymore since I have a Steam Deck for games on the go and a desktop PC for everything else.
Keyboard with good travel, decent screen, slots for additional SSDs, integrated 5G connectivity (maybe LoRa too), GPIO pins.
100% yes on “keyboard with good travel,” I’m honestly okay with missing the rest on an initial model.
Now this is indeed great news
I can download more RAM now.
We could have had ARM laptops much earlier, if some manufacturers at least tried to. I cannot really believe that the same chips that power SBCs couldn’t been put into some small laptops.
