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On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Wookey <[email protected]> wrote: > +++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2016-02-02 20:10 +0000]: >> > Thing is, that project is stalled because a) Andy is working on both >> > another project and deisgning/building a new house and b) they have >> > failed to get AMD to commit to chip supply. So currently your design >> > is looking a lot more like it might actually happen than theirs. >> >> *sigh* yeahh, it's quite likely that AMD hasn't actually got *anyone* >> who's committed to it... > > Softiron is selling hardware based on the AMD seattle, ok great! >> yeah you too - it's been a bit weird focussing so heavily on this >> stuff for such a long time. >> >> 1.1kg - it's peanuts. i'm kinda confused as to why 15.6in laptops >> are 2.3kg and above. > > More performance, bigger batteries, fans, heatsinks, ABS cases, metal > frame in decent ones (the PItop shows how much heavier an ABS > injection-moulded case is - A brick in comparison). Yours feels too > light to be very robust, but I guess we'll see. The lightness helps > itself to some degree, in the way of insects being unaffected by > falls. i kinda intuitively / subconsciously must have thought of that, i did know of the concept of "mass decompounding" as applied to cars. the hinge part is my main concern - but i guess that one part could always be either cast in aluminium (look up julia longtin's work - phil mentioned her to me a while back) or just done in either the high-temperature ABS from proto-pasta or perhaps the 300C polycarbonate used for plastic bottles... lots of experimenting, plenty of time. > I'm used to a solid lenovo X-series... > >> > It was nice :-) I feel inspired to update my eoma card and print some >> > parts... >> >> awesome. well, the rev 1.1 card that you have should work with a bit >> of modification - there's a couple of jumper leads you need to run, >> i've modded one here - you'll only be able to run the LCD at 100% >> brightness unless you compile up a software-PCM linux kernel module >> and do a few other tricks.... just running 3.3v to the pin that's now >> allocated as "PWM0" is the easiest temporary solution. > > I had a quick look but failed to find details of the screen, keyboard, > boards and 3D parts online, other than scattered through many mailing > list-messages. Never mind info like the above. Is there a page that > actually has the info someone keen would need to get started? eek - sorry :) i usually maintain a page that has them but haven't put it together yet - give me a mo and it'll be at http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/ the boards i want to do another run in the next few weeks, wookey, so if you'd like to buy some you'd be most welcome. i don't want to get too many done in case they need modifications. they're only single-sided 2-layer 1.5mm thick so are "bog standard" i.e. dirt cheap. i think this time i'll get them made up rather than do the component assembly myself. >> but, it would only be needed for a few months: i need to do another >> production run (rev 2.5) of the EOMA68-A20 PCB so there are more on >> the way. ethernet is going, so you need to be prepared for that, and >> have a USB-ETH dongle kicking around. > > Boo. But yes OK, that's do-able. (i put USB 3.1 which is 10gbit/sec in place instead - 8 wires for only GbE or 8 wires for a general-purpose 10gbit/sec bus.... no contest) > What I really want is either an A64 EOMA68 board, or a baseboard > that'll take the pine64...(as discussed, subject to heat > limits). Still, that's all 'just hardware' (ha ha). yeh the EOMA68-A64 is on the cards.... i even have a pine64 on order so i can check GPL compliance... *but* i just learned from someone at fosdem2016 that f*****g allwinner have done it *again* - this time something related to DDR3 RAM initialisation. i can't recall the exact details (was a bit of a mad rush) but i am *not* going to waste my time any more on pursuing GPL violations. so if someone can confirm whether this is true or not, i'll re-prioritise the allwinner A64 board back to the top of the TODO list. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
