Posts by Io McKinnon

Sub £200 mini laptop launched

CPU info

The Product manual on the Maplin page reports the CPU as "XBurst 400 MHz 32-bit CPU". They're made by Ingenic, a Chinese semiconductor company, and are some sort of RISC architecture. It's not x86 compatible.

Airline pilot sacked for 777 Top Gun stunt

@matt

From the youtube comment: "This video was made from single frames taken with a DSLR."

So, yeah, it was pictures stuck together.

Panic in smartphoneland

Regarding Google Earth..

You said - "As with Google Earth, sometimes it's better to start from scratch."

In actuality, Google bought Keyhole, who already had a product to market, so in this, your analogy fails.