• j4k3@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Never talked about the important thing. Are the kernel modules fully open source and is the SoC fully documented publicly. If those two aspects are not a yes, this entire affair is an attempt to steal hardware ownership just like phones.

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      5 months ago

      Yes, they submitted initial patchset to Linux kernel back in October (1 day after snapdragon X announcement). On Qualcomm’s website they say that full support for the chip will be merged into Linux kernel within six months.

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        5 months ago

        So no, the marketing shysters are simply trying to silence the self aware minority. /s

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      5 months ago

      I like the arm world because you don’t have only two players which are boring and are not good at all if you think of a world wide technological progress. It’s a rather poor world actually.

      I’m trying a cheap arm Chromebook now and I can say it could replace a standard pc/mac already, in terms of performances. Mediatek can already challenge apple and snapdragon so we already have 3 players but I think Samsung, and unisoc will enter the arena. Rockchip already did it with chromebooks and they look enough too.

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      5 months ago

      And thinking about prices, considering the t820 that is about 150€ with the Nubia neo (or neo2), you could have chromebooks for maybe 200€, if you add 12" screen and stylus support.