Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 12:02:41 -0700 From: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% Message-ID: <4A1999D1.5010508@prgmr.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905242021440.33060@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905242021440.33060@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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This guy advises buying an old G4 Mac laptop to use as a netbook:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/herlihy/09ph/ibook-netbook.html
While Apple might be planning to stop supporting PowerPC, one could run
FreeBSD on it.
Mac-Pro has good prices on used Mac laptops. A G4 PowerBook is $500 to
$650 depending on what kind of burner is installed.
http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.66/.f
I was just now looking into ARM netbooks. I think there's only one
actual shipping model so far, but ARM shows great promise because ARM
CPUs use very little power. I expect there will be lots of them by the
end of the year.
Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2.
Mike
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