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Newspick - that one is an ARM based Samsung, mine is an x86 based Acer | 429 comments | Create New Account
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Newspick - that one is an ARM based Samsung, mine is an x86 based Acer
Authored by: TiddlyPom on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 03:55 AM EST
My Acer C7 really does look like this (Samsung is similar) - must be lighting!

I did look at the Samsung and (being ARM based rather than x86) REALLY wanted to like it and to buy one BUT:
  1. The 2GB of RAM is soldered in to the motherboard - no upgrades (the Acer C7 takes standard DDR3 PC1333 SODIMMs)
  2. The 30GB flash disk is soldered into the motherboard (the Acer C7 takes standard SATA hard disks albeit low profile)
  3. The CPU in the Acer C7 is more powerful than the CPU in the Samsung
  4. The GPU in the Samsung is supported (but not brilliantly) under Ubuntu (the GPU in the Acer C7 is a standard Intel Ivy-Bridge GPU supported by open source drivers)
My idea was to have a laptop that was as 'open source' as possible - i.e. fully open source BIOS, operating system and drivers. Nearly there and the Acer C7 is the closest thing I have seen so far.

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