Miniature Linux MIPS Laptop

Everyone is talking about various miniature PCs of non-standard architecture. I have been a fan of this topic for quite a long time, and had the imprudence of buying a Linux MIPS-laptop, a close relative of the Vogue video player

Domestic Vogue

I have a laptop for more than a year, but only now I’ve got a hand to write a review on it and paint my impressions and its insides. Since this piece of hardware is still for sale, this review can be very relevant. So let's get started.

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Why is it?

Remember, not so long ago there was a terrible hysteria about the video player in the magazine Vogue. Then I was very lucky, and I was able to get as many as 11 magazines. Having got them, I decided not to be greedy, but to share with the people. At the same time, in order to somehow motivate myself, I decided to sell them at a premium, plus the cost of sending. For reference: I bought 200 rubles for each, sold for 400. On the one hand, of course, baryzhnichestvo, but on the other hand, given that I spent a lot of time in queues at the Russian Post, I received almost nothing, except thanks. Total revenue amounted to 4500 rubles (one wag was sold for 500 rubles), and I decided to buy myself something.
If you remember, the main problem and the ambush of video players was that it does not have a USB host. By this, with Linux installed, it remains, in fact, a funny useless piece of hardware. But somewhere in the descriptions of vogue, a link to a laptop slipped on a similar processor, but the JZ4750 processor supports a USB host !!! It is sold on a great and terrible dilextstream, and costs only 127 bucks www.dealextreme.com/p/7-tft-lcd-linux-2-6-xburst-jz4750-cpu-umpc-netbook-w-wifi-360mhz-128mb -ram-1gb-flash-disk-42888? r = 24219562 . Realizing that this of course can be a shitty purchase, I decided. Yet there is Linux by default. True, I did not think it would be such a shitty purchase. But first things first.

What is he?

A month after the payment, I received such a wonderful box that I ran home and quickly began to unpack.

Box

Inside the charger, the instruction (in general, useless) and the laptop itself.

Box contents

The first thing, of course, that struck me was its miniature size and, at the same time, quite a comfortable keyboard

MIPS-laptop, under it for comparison eeePC 1000

Unfolded

Keyboard

It has 3 USB ports, a microphone, an Ethernet headset and a mmc card slot.

Left side

Starboard

Stern

The screen for a super-cheap laptop is quite a nothing. The touch is also quite convenient.

What about software?

But the most interesting thing is how it works. Turn on

Welcome messages when enabled

It immediately became clear that the system does not shine with speed. Boot relatively quickly. The desktop looks like this:

Screenshot desktop.

Screenshot made for all canons with the PrtScr button. But on this positive emotions using the laptop ended. Firstly, the laptop stubbornly does not want to connect Wifi, no, not even open. Network sees, but does not cling. The settings are so primitive that I tried all possible options in 5 minutes. I had to connect it via Ethernet. Went out to the Internet. Each page is loaded monstrously long. My communicator, on the fig zhapareze itself, loads 10 times faster than this piece of hardware on a 30 megabit e-mail network. Those. the Internet cannot be parsed from it, alas ... But can it be possible to type texts on it? No, only three languages are pre-installed in the system: Chinese (who would have thought!), English and French. Well, at least you can watch movies? Here are the films you can, but with lags. Headphones, by the way, too, somehow work very sucks, although the speakers sound quite tolerable. In general, it is better to see everything on video than read ten times.
An example of work.

Short video description: Downloading a laptop, then launching a browser, trying to access my blog. It can be seen how the website loads over 30-megabyte Internet too, and the pictures do not load. Then I go to the connected USB flash drive and play video from it. Video brakes may also be related to the fact that the data transfer speed is limited to the USB 1.0 standard. Do not scold much for the quality - shot on the ancient soap box. Shot silently, because did it at three o'clock in the morning yesterday and did not want to wake anyone up.
Music in video: Carbon Based Lifeforms - Twentythree Composition System

The interface of this software is closest to Windows. Even the disks are called Tse and De ... Of all the most I was saddened by the lack of a console! Those. it is impossible to get into it in any way. However, knowing the ip-address of the laptop, it can be reached by telnet !!! By entering root without a password.

dlinyj@dlinyj-desktop:~$ telnet 192.168.1.122
Trying 192.168.1.122…
Connected to 192.168.1.122.
Escape character is ‘^]’.

Ingenic linux machine
Kernel 2.6.24.3 on an mips
(none) login: root
# ls
MyDocuments      home             opt              sys
bin              lib              proc             tmp
dev              linuxrc          root             usr
etc              mac_tmp          runfonts.sh      var
gameHistoryList  mnt              sbin             workspace


# uname –a
Linux (none) 2.6.24.3 #153 PREEMPT Wed Dec 23 08:39:23 EST 2009 mips unknown

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