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On Saturday 27 April 2013 20:26:58 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Friday 26 April 2013 16:45:45 wireless wrote: |
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> > Note, the dev board I mentioned has SATA ports build in so you |
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> > can put all sorts of different HD on the dev system. Still |
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> > have an A15 SOC in a laptop package, is very appealing.... |
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> that is the one downside to the laptop. its main disk is 16GiB flash |
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> connected to one of the eMMC ports. it has an additional SD port for |
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> cards (so i put a 64GiB in there), and it has two USB ports (2.0 and 3.0), |
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> so you could hook external disks up. i would have loved to have a SATA |
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> port in there though. |
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also, to be clear, the choice to use eMMC over SATA wasn't an accident. SATA |
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sucks up a lot more power than eMMC (both active and in standby), and the |
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battery life on this laptop is awesome. |
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-mike |
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