XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-1.75 the XO-1.75 will have 1GB of RAM. This is the same amount as in the XO-1.5. Might this become a performance bottleneck? Might there be an option to purchase units with more RAM? Sridhar ___ Devel mailing lis

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-1.75 the XO-1.75 will have > 1GB of RAM That's... not quite the plan of record :-) I followed your link but could not find any such statement... where does it say so, so I can fix it? regards

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 14 April 2011 02:21, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > wrote: >> According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-1.75 the XO-1.75 will have >> 1GB of RAM > > That's... not quite the plan of record :-) > > I followed your link but could not find any such

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> Might 1GB of RAM become a performance bottleneck? I myself am skeptical of efforts to use the OLPC where a desktop system might be more effective. I've run various large applications on an XO-1.5 system, and have not myself experienced "memory shortage". Unless the RAM chips on the XO-1.75

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 14 April 2011 06:16, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> Might 1GB of RAM  become a performance bottleneck? > > I myself am skeptical of efforts to use the OLPC where a desktop system > might be more effective.  I've run various large applications on an XO-1.5 > system, and have not myself experienced "m

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread James Cameron
On 14 April 2011 06:16, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Unless the RAM chips on the XO-1.75 are socketed (and thus easily > replaceable), This seems unlikely. Socketing adds cost up front, and low cost is a primary goal. Also the demand for upgrade would be relatively low. > ... particularly memory-

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-14 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:01:47AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > For what it worths I have the same SDcard on the XO-1 with more than > 1500 hours of swap use of a 256MB partition, with no problem so far. Cool. What was the unit cost of the SD card, what size was it, and how many writes w

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-14 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: XO-1.75 RAM > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org > Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 3:33 AM > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:01:47AM > -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-14 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:21:23AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > That was/is a $15 Transcend 4GB class 6 card that not only can have 5 > erase blocks open but also has an impressive random w/r speed (full > flashbence data is attached) Okay, thanks. I don't know a deployment willing to fo

Re: XO-1.75 RAM [Devel Digest, Vol 62, Issue 25]

2011-04-14 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
> -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:36:10 +1000 > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan > Subject: Re: XO-1.75 RAM > To: mi...@bga.com > Cc: OLPC Devel > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 14 April