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From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Definitely unslung
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:25:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004101c7a718$d555eb60$ab00a8c0@tenstac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01c7a70d$bb22ec30$2518a8c0@bouncy>

I have spent many many hours analyzing the x86 vs ARM alternative
for embedded boards. The tradeoff is quite large in terms of ease of
use and application portability in favor for x86, but yes much higher
power requirements. If you want to run on battery power for long 
extended periods then ARM makes sense, but then you're talking 
about a whole different class of applications. If you want portable 
but mostly plugged in then a 200-300 Mhz PC/104 x86 board is 
very flexible. I've given up on x86 for this kind of thing but then 
I want something that runs all day on batteries. So as with most 
tech decisions, the answer depends on the requirements. 
  -- Doug


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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Georgina Joyce
 ` C.M. Brannon
   ` Kerry Hoath
     ` Doug Sutherland [this message]
   ` Buddy Brannan
     ` Kerry Hoath
       ` Travis Siegel
         ` Buddy Brannan
           ` David Poehlman
             ` Buddy Brannan
               ` David Poehlman
               ` Travis Siegel
                 ` Alex Snow
                   ` Doug Smith
                     ` Gregory Nowak
                     ` Travis Siegel
                       ` Doug Smith
                         ` Travis Siegel
                           ` David Poehlman
                     ` Doug Sutherland
                       ` Doug Smith
                         ` Doug Sutherland
                       ` Doug Sutherland
                   ` Travis Siegel
                     ` Gregory Nowak
                       ` Travis Siegel
                     ` Luke Yelavich
                     ` Alex Snow
           ` Travis Siegel
         ` David Poehlman
     ` David Poehlman
       ` Alex Snow
     ` Georgina Joyce
   ` Travis Siegel
     ` Buddy Brannan
       ` Travis Siegel
         ` Buddy Brannan
           ` Kirk Reiser
     ` Georgina Joyce
   ` Georgina Joyce
   ` Alex Snow
     ` C.M. Brannon
 ` Doug Sutherland

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