Recent content by theawddone

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    Sony VAIO Z vs. HP ENVY 14

    Where did you get the weight for the envy 14, I haven't seen that in any of the information yet...
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    A modern laptop with no webcam

    Here's a laptop that has an i3-i7 option and webcam is optional, if you haven't decided yet which to go with: http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...me=G62t_series
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    First Time Embedded Linux Development

    I really appreciate the advice, and having gone a few design cycles with the PICs I am intimately familiar with documentation and data-sheets. Unfortunately, that isn't really the issue I am facing right now. My primary concern is getting a development environment set up and choosing a...
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    First Time Embedded Linux Development

    I am a 4th year computer engineering student and I have been heavily involved with a campus project for the past year and a half building CubeSats (cubesat.org if you are curious, but they are basically 10cm cube satellites that generally have a 1W power footprint). We have been using PIC18's...
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    Can't find a good book on mircroprocessor design

    Also, I just remembered that I when one of the guys who helped create QPI came and talked at my school he mentioned the only official literature on the topic was available directly from Intel. I tried to find that book specifically (he had it in hand, but didn't catch the title unfortunately)...
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    Can't find a good book on mircroprocessor design

    Your best bet would be trying to find published papers on those topics, here's a couple that I read for a grad ee digital course I took last quarter, about the P4 microarchitecture and general microprocessor architecture design. They are kind of dated, but still have some interesting stuff in...
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    Choosing a Microcontroller for Embedded Linux?

    Thanks for the quick responses, I mostly just need a lot of I/O for house-keeping type work and communications, this will mostly act as a bridge to the transceiver for non-status data that will be transmitted. Interfacing will mostly be done over I2C, SPI will be used with a transceiver, and a...
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    Choosing a Microcontroller for Embedded Linux?

    For a long-term (6 months++ development, 1yr++ testing) graduate-level project, I am trying to choose a microcontroller to replace a PIC18-based system so that we can run linux. My requirements are really only that it can run Linux 2.6+ (not a uCLinux or any linux derivative, want broadest...
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    College Engineering, which graphic calculator? TI-89/Nspire

    Ti-89 owns for electrical engineering, can't speak for other areas of study though. edit: I should note, however, that none of my calculus classes allowed calculators.
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    Buying a new high end laptop

    Linked the wrong one I suppose, the 15" definitely appears to have an i7: http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...d-looking-pretty-real/
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    Buying a new high end laptop

    Sounds like this is coming out soon (perhaps an announcement tomorrow?): http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...ed-lacking-voodoo-dna/ Looks pretty sexy, I'd wait to see what they say!
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    Buying a new high end laptop

    Lol, Sager charges you $20 to receive a windows 7 upgrade if you buy a laptop with vista, is that even legal? http://www.sagernotebook.com/p...27484&action=customize
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    Acer Timeline or MSI X600?

    http://gizmodo.com/5355619/asu...-focus-on-battery-life I am waiting on these personally =) I had been considering the timeline series, but I have no urgent need for a laptop.
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    Cheap atom PC as a file server

    Sorry to bump this, but I am looking to build/buy something very similar to most of the other posters in this thread. Could anyone give me a recap as to what would be the best approach for a low-power, high-capacity (at least could fit 2x1 TB drives?) file server/seed-box? I was originally...
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    Anyone own one of Acer's new Timelime series?

    Wow, never had heard of this before today, looks awesome. What is the deal with the single-button below the touch pad though? This is my favorite laptop for under $1k that I have found thus far...