Acer 720p deal

[Matthew Dillon]

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.  The Acer chromebooks are
64-bit haswell cpus.  Why would there be less memory available in 64-bit
mode?

-Matt

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Alex Hornung <alex at alexhornung.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 26/11/14 21:55, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Tim Darby wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I just want to mention that the only "DragonflyBSD-certified"
> chromebook
> >>>> is
> >>>> selling for $179.99 on Amazon now:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://www.amazon.com/Acer-C720-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-2GB/dp/B00FNPD1VW/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
> >>>>
> >>>> Xmas present to myself? :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Tim
> >>>>
> >>> Not bad...aside from the 1366x768 resolution...that'd make it a no for
> me.
> >> And with i386 dropped in 4.0 how useful are 2 gigs of ram?
> >>
> > About as useful as before it was dropped.
>
> Right :). My point is that without i386 in 4.0 you'll have to use older
> versions
> of Dragonfly or have less memory available in x86_64 mode. I'm not
> complaining i386 was dropped. Quite the opposite as dropping i386 might
> be an elegant way to solve the time_t limitation other systems incorporate
> non trivial solutions for because they keep i386 around.
>
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