Minibook


Squidge

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The "32-Bit CPU" mentioned seems to be a XBurst - http://www.ingenic.cn/eng/productServ/XBur...CustomPage.aspx

"A set of industry-standard RISC instruction set."
"A multimedia acceleration for the SIMD instruction set."
"An innovative micro-architecture design"

I'm guessing it's a MIPS-clone, but not sure. There is source code on there website, but I'm not that interested to download it.

Price isn't bad though. £169.

Could make a decent EEE clone?
 
Squidge said:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Module...e=1&DOY=7m8

The "32-Bit CPU" mentioned seems to be a XBurst - http://www.ingenic.cn/eng/productServ/XBur...CustomPage.aspx

"A set of industry-standard RISC instruction set."
"A multimedia acceleration for the SIMD instruction set."
"An innovative micro-architecture design"

I'm guessing it's a MIPS-clone, but not sure. There is source code on there website, but I'm not that interested to download it.

Price isn't bad though. £169.

Could make a decent EEE clone?

Bah! Steal my news! ;) They didn't have the link at the time. Personally I would prefer an EEE and definitely prefer Pandora. But that price point is interesting and very likely to drop, being Maplin. This market could get very competitive.
 
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Yes, if more of those start coming out, and then reach a £149 price point, Craigix will have to be careful with his advertising.

As for the "Minibook" being trademarked, do you really think it would bother "knockoff China" even if it was? (There was a typed drawing of that name in 1988, but it was cancelled in 1997).
 
On the UC/OS-II page it lists the tools as "mipsel-nopic", so I think you're right about it being a MIPS-alike. Wonder how fast it's clocked?

Shame they've made the battery so small; if it had a battery the size of an EeePc's you'd get some serious runtime out of it.
 
Squidge said:
Yes, if more of those start coming out, and then reach a £149 price point, Craigix will have to be careful with his advertising.
It has some severe limitations though eg:

Supports up to 4GB SD cards and 4GB USB sticks
 
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BaDToaD said:
It has some severe limitations though eg:

Supports up to 4GB SD cards and 4GB USB sticks
And it seems not to support external hard drives. :huh:

Expand the storage with USB or SD Flash Memory (not external hard drives)
 
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