Andreas_Wolf wrote:
>> We'll haved to see how the first five T2080 prototype laptops turn out
>> in order to see how 'proper'/competitive these are.

>There are benchmark results for T2080-based boards like the T2080RDB or the T2080QDS. There's no way it >can be performance-competetive with current or even future x86-64 laptop offerings, which isn't >surprising in the slightest considering the age of the SoC and e6500 core.

If its about as powerful as an older ARM Based Chromebook (like Samsung's original product), I'd be happy.
And it should be a match for the X5000, more powerful if SMP is factored in.

>> the process it is using for these CPUs isn't nearly as fine as what AMD is using.

>Isn't 14nm nearly as fine as 12nm?

Yes, but its not 7nm (which they will be shifting to soon).

And the real point?
At about $100 more (for the Soc), a T2080 based device may not be competitive with even a low end X64 (Atom, etc), but it will walk all over a P1022 based device and will be competitive with both the X1000 and X5000.

Kronos' point of of how valid or worthwhile a PPC laptop maybe is a matter of perspective. I think this would be a nice jump from our current laptops.
It would be 64bit, support SMP, and like the PowerMac G5 and X5000 could form the core of a hardware base we could start development of MorphOS NG on.

After all, we don't need high end X64 power, in the G5 and the X5000 we already have more than enough power to run our OS and its software.