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#175
Originally Posted by Zeta View Post
If you want very high longevity on battery, for a device that is not used for high performances graphics, but as an SSH terminal or local editor (but not for kernel compilation on device...), there are dedicated low power CPU like the SAMA5 from Atmel (now Microchip).
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If you just want ssh, GNU utilities, gcc, Python, numpy, etc but don't care about (usable) linux graphics, just get an Android phone and install GNUROOT Debian and/or termux. That's what I've done (although I still carry my N900!) and it works pretty well. I can even compile things with gcc and openmp on my Android phone, and use all the cores. You can still purchase good, new Android phones with hardware keyboards. Obviously the battery life is fine. If I could just get a decent X11 server (I've tried a bunch, and as far as I can tell all Android X11 servers are unusably bad), I'd be pretty happy with my Google Pixel XL - with the battery case I have, I can go six days without recharging.
 

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