On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:03:58AM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote: > On 11/13/2013 9:56 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>Having long wanted to run http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html, I've > >>just seen that the main EU vendor of Loongson/Lemote/Yeeloong has > >>finally -temporarily, they say- significantly cut the hitherto > >>relatively high cost of these machines. > >>I'm not going to spam the URL, but if this interests you and you can't > >>figure out who this is (it's not Wim; it's the other guys), then drop > >>me a line. > > > >What a stupid game. Are you talking about tekmote.nl? > > > > He is. I was just donated a Loongson-3A laptop from that sale.
For the same price as of a low-end amd64 laptop you get: Processor: LoongSon 3A, 900MHz [...] Battery duration: 2,5 hours after recharging And then the motto: Apple in Linux hardware! What a joke... Thanks to this thread I remembered the disappointment when the 3A was announced.
