DIY Laptops from ASUS

ASUS C90 Laptop

The laptop you see above is the new ASUS C90 barebones laptop onto which you can add processor , memory , HDD and video card of your choice , no mean feat in laptops ..

I drool over this new barebones model and for ventilation from 4 cooling fans

ASUS C90

Also this is a older model Z84FM

Notice that in the older model you cannot replace the video card because NVIDIA introduced the MXM interface recently.

Z84FM

Intel and AMD killed the Alpha

Hi Guys,

I did some research regarding various processors in the market to some processors that have died out because of commercial interests , and the thing is it seems like the alpha which was based on superior technology for the time and a pure RISC 64 bit processor was a winner which due to market forces became the loser , but thats not all now it seems like AMD and intel ( both of them seem to share intellectual property so i am not sure they are competing in the true sense of the word ) are completely in the X86 domain and RISC has been harboured into the embedded systems domain as it’s extremely fast and less complicated than x86 based embedded processors ( consumes less power too )

Okay so if i am a embedded engineer and i specialize on the MIPS based processors wouldn’t i like to have a compatible desktop environment to compile and test compilers and programs before i can reduce the size to suit embedded needs , what about building native compilers and running them on a cluster based system so that your programs are compiled faster and we don’t have to wait for hours … to see the results and change them … now thats productivity …

I leave my thoughts to the members of this forum.