Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 19:53:41 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: 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: <4ad871310905241653u3bf99db8xcd1268607f813d74@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A1999D1.5010508@prgmr.com> References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905242021440.33060@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4A1999D1.5010508@prgmr.com>
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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> wrote: > 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. > How did this topic get switched to netbooks? -- Glen Barber
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