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computer is Intel n97, (GMKtec G5, no ssd, no OS) ~ 130 US
Input is Rii i8+ (Touchpad/KB/mouse buttons) ~ 17 US
Monitor is 14" 1920x1200 (zeus) ~ 75 US
This set up needs a sanDisk USB3.1 stubby or two ~15US uSDHC slot is USB2.0!
Better, IMHO than a chromebook of equal price. Though not potable. therein is the trade-off.
R-pi's still need an external monitor and Power Supply.
From Netscape to AI scrape. We're running short of bandages.
I've actually been checking out some Chromebook specs recently, but I have to say that I am not impressed with what they have to offer cpu-wise and so on.
That relatively modern N97 chip you mention seems much more useful whilst very low power/energy resource using. Reminds me of the older intel-core-m38100y: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... tions.html albeit N97 has four cores (compared to M3 two cores) and more L3 cache (6MB compared to M3 4MB) and bit faster clock speed.
Obviously that M3 (not to be confused with Apple M3) is not go to impress anyone using a modern Intel i5 or i7 and similar, but using forum distros we can certainly still get a great deal of use out of computers using very low energy consuming processors like that.
https://www.tinylinux.info/
DOWNLOAD wd_multi for hundreds of 'distros' at your fingertips: viewtopic.php?p=99154#p99154
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Yes all-day operation is the brief. As for tasks, it depends on needs. My Pentium N6000 Chromebook with 8Gb ram is fine. Very little lag. With Firefox, Thunderbird & mpv in the local Crostini container, there is occasional minor lag due to being unaccelerated in that. I have Softmaker Office in that too - is fine. The Chrome web browser is accelerated, so I stream video stuff with it. Security is updated every week, whereas in Puppy, it's all on me. I'm happy to use either, but Puppy is more challenging, as for the most part, ChromeOS just works. The Crostini container is like having a Debian Bookworm install complete with security updates. Only downsides are that apt is run manually & Crostini takes 30 sec to initiallise, but I have the main software I want, so rarely use apt. One could just use the Crostini container & never use ChromeOS components, but I like the best of both worlds on one machine. I don't even use the builtin VPN, or Gemini AI, but is good to have the options.
