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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: danboid on May 10, 2006, 06:22:15 pm

Title: Compulab Cm-f82
Post by: danboid on May 10, 2006, 06:22:15 pm

Interesting new board released by an Israeli firm called Compulab

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9007050548.html (http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9007050548.html)

Looks nice to me! Supposedly a 400Mhz MPC8272 has a similar MIPS rating to a 624Mhz PXA270 but this chip has a FPU AND i2700G gfx. Big shame it lacks USB 2.0 and it also says it only supports up to 128MB RAM

I found this blurb on the CPU-

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/p...2468rH3Jk192977 (http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8272&nodeId=0162468rH3Jk192977)

The same company also makes these cool little boards:

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8380902400.html (http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8380902400.html)

but they don't say what graphics chipset or linux distro they use on that one

2006 certainly promises to be an interesting year for tech and gadget addicts

Title: Compulab Cm-f82
Post by: speculatrix on May 13, 2006, 04:57:25 pm

it would certainly make it possible to build an ultraportable laptop style computer... add a display, usb keyboard, and stuff.

I was reckoning that the true cost of the zaurus is not in the components but in the having to pack so much into such a small case and not be selling them by the millions to achieve the mass economies of scale that the low-end Palms and PocketPCs achieve.