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Old 7th October 2008
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Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
Hello,

There is no shortage of Intel-based laptops. And there are not a few AMD-based laptops. And Apple has their (formerly PPC-based, now Intel-based) laptops. But:

Why are their no readily available laptops built on a MIPS or a SPARC processor, or even a VIA (even though they are still x86). At best, I have found a couple, but they are all like 7"! How about a full-sized version - at least 15.4".
It is not true that there are no laptops build on a MIPS and SPARC architecture!!!


You got semi-accurate account on laptops based on SPARC 64 processors.
In reality even SUN's own Ultra 3 mobile work station could be considered a laptop as long as you do not try to hold her really on your lap due to the
excessive heat.
The others have already pointed out that Tadpole Computer of Cupertino
and Taiwanese Nature Worldwide Technology.are specialized in Sparc laptops. The General Dynamics sells Tadpole sparc based laptops as their own brand

http://www.tadpole.com/


Now lets go back to more interesting question of the MIPS based laptops.
Here comes the one.

http://www.schrotthal.de/sgi/indy/us...op-rare_2.html

I shell mentioned the DEC ALPHAbook 1 laptop based on their own alpha RISK architecture.

I could bet my life that somebody tried to make a laptop based on famous Motorola 68000 processor but I personally have not seen one. So if somebody
knows something about please let me know.

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