Very cool, and very funny - sounds like I'm not the only one with this idea.
I have coreboot in my car already: http://www.lucidmachines.com/quadriga.html
I can confirm the 5 second boot claims, perhaps lower when you don't have a display. Either way, definitely a milestone. -Marshall
On 08/24/2011 03:43 PM, xdrudis wrote:
I've just seen these news about a new vehicle PC with 5 seconds boot time thanks to coreboot, but there is no information on pricing, software (if any, maybe it is sold without hard disks ?) or firmware (apparently they would ship it with coreboot, but the datasheet does only say "supports AMD Coreboot technology", which might mean that the user can install it and it should work, although I'd think it's more likely to mean it comes preinstalled.
If so it may even be tempting. Pity my only vehicles are bicyles and I'm not sure what to use the 1.5 kg
- disks + screen+ power source for while riding...
I guess you can also use it at home, but I wonder about the price (no , I'm not going to ask them because I wasn't thinking of buying a new computer now, but I'm curious).
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Portwell-PCS8277/
http://www.portwell.com/products/detail.asp?CUSTCHAR1=PCS-8277#order
In any case, congratulations all, it looks like another milestone.
Time to start a new section in the web about "where to buy?"