<div dir="ltr">With the caveat of I do not know what I am talking about specifically here, signed 32 bit int is 2g and that may have something to do with it. <div><br></div><div>Marc</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Mark Saad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.saad@ymail.com" target="_blank">mark.saad@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 1/21/15 1:27 PM, Pete Wright wrote:<br>
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> On 01/20/15 19:29, Mark Saad wrote:<br>
>>> Hi Talk<br>
>>> I saw this today on slashdot and somewhere else, either way . It has<br>
>>> some interesting bits but I was 1/2 expecting it to be a ARM and not an<br>
>>> intel x86 isa. What are you thoughts on why no one has built a arm<br>
>>> laptop in this market with more then 2G of ram and a decent amount of<br>
>>> internal storage<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/" target="_blank">https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/</a><br>
><br>
> <dodging arm question><br>
><br>
> meh this site looks pretty sketchy imho. i have idea what they are<br>
> talking about in regards to no other hardware allowing you to run your<br>
> own kernel (see: "Hardware Companies, Freedom, and Privacy").<br>
><br>
> at least they are using a decent video card and OK components - although<br>
> i hazzard support for RMA'ing components will be "fun".<br>
><br>
> also..only supporting their linux distribution? doesn't seem very open<br>
> to me...<br>
><br>
> -pete<br>
><br>
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</span>Pete I agree with the snake oil aspect of this site. Al La "We are so<br>
open we use Linux... Security is from linux ... "<br>
<br>
Also I did some digging on arm with more then 2G of ram and a Acer Arm<br>
Chromebook and one Samsung Arm Chromebook have 4G of ram, they are the<br>
outliers. I am not even sure what the extra ram gets you with a chromebook.<br>
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