@p Here is your new Chinese laptop (they are from Hong Kong in fact): https://canonical.com/blog/worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-gets-a-massive-upgrade-and-equips-with-ubuntu
https://deepcomputing.io/product/dc-roma-risc-v-laptop-ii/
(The second link is behind CAPTCHA for some reason)
Now with AI!
(yes, it has an NPU 😩)
The press:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/riscv_laptop_ubuntu/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DC-ROMA-RISC-V-Laptop-II
> "Partners with Canonical"
> "Ubuntu"
> "Canonical"
> "Partners with Canonical"
> "Ubuntu"
whoahoahsinternally.jpg
@p
Well, in this case it's rather a good thing — means that it would ship in more or less working condition, more people would get it and there would be a community.
Canonical was behind Toshiba AC100 and it still kinda works — unlike a lot of early ARM machines. With only 512 megabytes of RAM it has very limited use nowadays, but it's still community-supported — I've build Void for it and was able to boot newer Linux kernels with no issues.
@p
Agreed, that would be way cooler! But I don't see harm in this coming out either: with niche hardware, availability in different regions might be spotty. This looks like something that could become available even in Russia. And it's not like there are plenty on RISC-V laptops already, it won't spread the community thin, so why not? 🤷
> I don't see harm in this coming out either:
Oh, no, very cool.
> it's not like there are plenty on RISC-V laptops already
You might be surprised: there's a Milky-V that's pin-compatible with the RPi CM-4, so a lot of the places you could plug a CM-4 work. Like this guy got it to work in a Turing Pi 2 (FSE's currently living on a TPi2): https://feldspaten.org/2023/10/27/RISC-V-in-a-Turing-Pi-2/ . There are Pi laptop kits that are basically a CM-4 carrier board with battery/keyboard/screen/battery, right, and I imagine that you could get a MilkyV to run in a lot of them.
> it won't spread the community thin
Oh, I'm not really worried about that kind of thing.