Have you seen any pegasos II notebook?

Peg II notebooks !! Where ?
It's my wish for crismas.

It is coming...

Yes, It's my wish too thats why I ask for it!!!
Where have you seen it's coming?

...follow the link!

These things take time!

R&B

sweeeeeet

Very cool! I am looking forward to seeing what it will look like.

MorphOS in a laptop. Now thats what I'd call a christmaspresent

is this going to be the first PPC laptop that isn't made by Apple?

I have Pegasos 1, I would like to buy Pegasos 2, but I prefer notebook version, so I will wait :o)))

It would be great if it will be available in the spring 2005 (with MOS 1.5).

Does exist any photo of prototype? (or hw configuration???)

Great prospective!

Please reserve one,
err better two for me.


-Gunnar

Those are a nice set of reference designs IMHO. The span looks pretty complete, it covers most areas. If the portable design is the same as, what should we call it, the "iPeg" (or the Eclipsis), then it would be enough small to be used for a regular laptop as well! But people, don't hold your breath! As BBRV said, these things takes time, and we have yet to see any real sign of any new hardware development at all from bplan/genesi.

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No, not just Apple, IBM made also some PPC laptops. Please take a look at http://www.tecnopolis.ca/aixtp/
I won't get probably any answer from bbrv, but could "takes some time" be expressed in months or years?

i guess it will not very soon.


anyway.. such device would only make sense with MorphOS! For linux you already can use well working x86 notbooks.

regards,
tokai

Why would anyone want to use x86?

Maybe a Peg in a PC-104+ formfactor would be a solution?
That is small enough for anything maybe except the pda(you could make a pda of a pc104 board but it might be a little bulky)
Industrial, STB, thin client, laptop, pentablet, pda, pocketvideoplayer and wearable all from the same board, wouldn´t that be favorable when it comes to massproduction?

@tokai

PPC laptops for linux can be interesting, x86 laptops are pure shit, drains battery at amazing speeds! PPC is a lot less power consumer.

Yes the new Pegasos notebook with G3 would have save a lot of power, so it must run more then 5 hours on the battery.

I am very looking forward to first real anouncement about the Pegasos notebook. I dont want anything else :o)

Quote:Errr, the laptop I'm using now is 3 years old (original battery) and it works fine for 2 hours of normal use ...

Actually my new office HP laptop (1.6 gig Pentium M) runs for about 5-6 hours on a battery charge. I'm actually quite impressed. My own Pentium 500 Celeron-based laptop lasted about 3-4 hours (mostly wiht the screen off) but now the battery is pretty much fried (dies in 30 minutes).

That said, it might be interesting to see how long a G3 would last...

td741

Why G3? There are G4 that powers less than 10 watts.

@Holley

You said, 2 hours is very little time.

@td741 & JACK

I think that the G4 "at very small power consuming" 1ghz on the future Pegasos laptop will can run at a lot more than 6 hours at intensive use (if will be good designed, of course).

And like I said, thats after 3 years of memory effect and without CPU throttling. Considering the amount of harddisk activity windows XP with 256Mb of ram takes up I think 2 full hours is doing very well!

I love the idea of a Peg Laptop, but saying x86 is rubbish can't be the only reason for it's existance. With a little help from IBM in supplying cases etc it could be quite an easy transition, and a good product

Notebooks are so 90s, have a look at this
http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/index.html
and here
http://wearables.blu.org/

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"How long battery lasts" depends on 2 things:
1)How much power all the devices use together
2)How much power the battery can have

Probably X86 laptops have generally more powerful batteries than Mac portables, for example