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So, it’s really just a matter of time before dactyl bites the dust. Given, that amount of time might be 3-5 years, but it’ll still die sometime.

Luckily, Intel just released something that makes me salivate… another mini-ITX motherboard with an Atom processor on it. (Atom is Intel’s line of very low power processors.) The board itself draws basically the same amount of power as dactyl, but has perhaps 10 times the performance and has some neat features like SATA and the ability to use real memory. It’s also cheaper than the motherboard for dactyl.

So fear not! If and when dactyl dies, something will rise from the ashes. (Oh, and the blog is backed up remotely on a regular basis too, so if dactyl dies, everything can be easily ported.)

I have a question for the people still back at Dartmouth. Does anyone want to be listed as the official contact for dactyl with the computer folks? After I graduated, Michael became the official contactee and we should probably switch to someone who’s actually on campus. The job doesn’t require any work at all, all the updating and administering of dactyl happens remotely.