Powerboard Tyche: prototype testing results
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2023/02/prototypes-testing-results/
#PowerPC #PowerPC64 #Computing #Laptop #OpenHardware #OpenSource #RISC #Linux

A PowerPC (RED Semi) laptop that's about the thickness of an early 2000s laptop, but using the advancements in thinness over the years (e.g. NVMe) to use that room instead for a buckling sleeve keyboard, good speakers, and as big a battery as possible. 12", 14", and 16" screen options, as many things being on sockets as possible as well, including the SOC.
Oh the things I'd do with $25 million...
#computer #powerpc #powerpc64 #laptop #mobilecomputing
The outside would look something like this:

I would love to run FreeBSD for #PowerPC64 on my Power Macintosh G5 dual-proc. I fear that most of the ports will be little-endian, but there is some hope here for big-endian #ppc64 systems. #powerpc

#POWER to the People: Making #FreeBSD a First Class Citizen on POWER | FreeBSD Foundation
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/power-to-the-people-making-freebsd-a-first-class-citizen-on-power/#fn1