Acer 720p deal

[Carsten Mattner]

I'm sorry for confusing people. There's an inherent overhead of the larger
address space due to bigger pointers and some software will have
a larger footprint due to that. Therefore depending on what you run
you may have less free memory and the 2GB might be not as much
as it was in 32bit mode. Same amount available but more used for
book keeping if you want to explain it that way.

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:
> 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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