On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:45:25 -0500, "Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop for Huang, > >> it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this > >> kind and it would be priced to reflect that. > > > >It seems like there's room in the laptop market between "cheap" > >and "artisanal". > > Yah, I'm happy to enourage his efforts but if he ends up with > what amounts to just another obscure, custom design I sure > don't want to pay boutique prices for it. Chicken and egg? > > The dream, of course, is to somehow end up with open "standards" > for laptop/fondleslab/tablet paraphenalia (power supplies, cases, > connectors, peripherals, etc) as we have for desktop boxes...
I guess with an known-working, Big Name, open design, someone can come along and put it into production at various price points (i.e. dump the raspberry pi headers, the second ethernet, etc). _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
