- cross-posted to:
- riscv@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- riscv@lemmy.ml
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Does the trackpoint work like an old IBM thinkpad? If so this would be a really neat computer.
It’s called a nipple. And yes.
I’ve always called it the clit
My god, you’ve found it?!
More like it found me
Do you have one? The Thinkpad trackpoint was great but no other company that put a “nub/nipple” on their laptops was as good. I think IBM put a lot of effort into that device and whatever knockoffs Dell, HP etc were using were clumsy and uncomfortable in comparison.
We call it the clito in France, I have one on my Lenovo keyboard
Does RISC-V have security benefits since it is open source? Is it easier to detect hardware backdoors if it is used instead of x86 or ARM?
RISC-V instruction set (ISA) is open source. But the actual implementation (microarchitecture) has no such obligations. And among the implementations that can run Linux, none (that I know) are open source designs.
With regards to hardware backdoors - no, closed source RISC-V implementations are not easier than x86 or ARM to audit for security.
I think the CPU chips themselves are closed source but the architecture is open under MIT so this means anyone can close them
Any estimation on the battery life?
How well can it play Minecraft theoretically?
Not at all?
Why do you think that?
You would have to get a special version of lwjgl for it to even run on risc, and this thing doesn’t have any dedicated graphics hardware. The one guide I saw had Minecraft running on similarish hardware at 2fps.
Ah I see, would it be able to run a minecraft server?
I would say yes, but probably not for a lot of users. Minecraft isn’t inherently threaded, and the individual cpu cores on this aren’t super fast (though pretty decent). Another bottleneck would be the io speed, which I have no clue on. Also, why the hell would you run a server on a new laptop when you can buy one of their other pieces of hardware for cheaper?
Are netbooks making a comeback?
Man, I hope. I haven’t had as much fun on a computer as I did with my eepc701.
