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A Linux Laptop for $187?

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"We aren't looking to compete with the mainstream PC brands such as Lenovo and Apple as we are in a different class altogether," said Zhang Fuxin of the Institute of Computing Technology. The laptop uses Linux software and does not support Microsoft's Windows program, he said.

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cr ·
From the Inquirer, http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24882 (staff-written article):

China's Godson-2 CPU is a MIPS rip chip

But, said the firm in a report, the [Godson II] CPU, which is "95 per cent" MIPS compatible, raises questions about intellectual property. That's because it's an unauthorised re-make of the MIPS R10000.

Let's hope that any of these machines that travel past the Great Firewall have gcc tweaked for their CPU.

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