On Wednesday, October 03, 2001, 10:19:51 PM, Xi wrote: XT> i found the specs almost same,and thier price is much more XT> cheaper: WAFER-6820-400/sdm-128sd-100-a XT> http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-01/20014577.html Wow. I totally missed that message the first time around. Thanks, Xi. :) The board is indeed quite similar. More memory included (128mb). Same form factor. Same south bridge with audio. RealTek 8139C ethernet chipset instead of Intel. IrDA, where the Advantech has none. Lower power requirements. Don't need an expansion card for audio. Cheaper, by nearly $200. It has no video out (even though the chassis shows it; odd), and has PC/104, not PC/104+. It also has only a single SODIMM socket, and a single IDE port, whereas the Advantech has two of each. But the biggest thing that concerns me is that it uses the TM3200 at 400mHz, a chip which isn't even listed on Transmeta's website any longer. Is the 3200 really the 5400? Or has the 3200 EOL'd? In the interest of thoroughness, the Chips 69000 video chipset is accelerated under Xfree86 in both 3.3.6 and 4.1.0: http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status8.html The audio chipset we've gone over, and since the same RealTek chipset is on all my NICs here, I'll personally vouch for ethernet support (just remember, it's considered "experimental" in kernel 2.2.18). ;) I've also emailed ICP to see if they can clarify this stuff. Very interesting. I'll have to seriously consider this unit over the Advantech, especially since I don't actually need TV output for my application. Thanks, --Vito -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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