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Date:      Sun, 24 May 2009 19:53:41 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and  total CPU use ~5%
Message-ID:  <4ad871310905241653u3bf99db8xcd1268607f813d74@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> wro=
te:
> This guy advises buying an old G4 Mac laptop to use as a netbook:
>
> =A0 http://lowendmac.com/ed/herlihy/09ph/ibook-netbook.html
>
> While Apple might be planning to stop supporting PowerPC, one could run
> FreeBSD on it.
>
> Mac-Pro has good prices on used Mac laptops. =A0A G4 PowerBook is $500 to=
 $650
> depending on what kind of burner is installed.
>
> =A0 http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.66/.f
>
> I was just now looking into ARM netbooks. =A0I think there's only one act=
ual
> shipping model so far, but ARM shows great promise because ARM CPUs use v=
ery
> little power. =A0I expect there will be lots of them by the end of the ye=
ar.
>
> Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2.
>

How did this topic get switched to netbooks?

--=20
Glen Barber



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