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On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Mike Leimon <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh yeah, I stumbled across this blog update yesterday as well. > > https://olimex.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/teres-i-diy-open-source-hardware-hackers-laptop-update/ > > Now I do realize that yet again that some people around here aren't the > biggest fans of OLIMEX however, keep in mind that I'm not submitting this to > ruffle any feathers. no, appreciated mike. the one good thing that tsvetan is doing is interacting with people, letting them know this kind of stuff. > I just found this blog post to be quite interesting in > that it describes a lot of similar problems and issues I've read about in > one form or another on the mailing list. It seems to me that they still have > a lot of work ahead of them before they start to get anywhere. yyep... i have an advantage here in that i don't have an "established business" to look after. i can't exactly "drop everything" because i have a family... so we're all going to HK / Taiwan / China, together. > I personally think that the modular CPU card design is vastly superior > however, well, look at the efforts above when dealing with customs. i'm giving serious consideration to doing "split consignment" shipping from HK / China (like they do with ebay / amazon on a maaaassive scale) so that delays such as they're experiencing can be avoided. but moving on from there, look at how few parts there are when you come to upgrade: there's... err... one! the new computer card! and the import duty and tax on that will be negligeable. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
