On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello > > at FOSDEM this year I stopped at the Coreboot stand and I mentioned that > I was having problems finding a 16 pin SOIC clip to flash coreboot on > my thinkpad x200. > > The person at the stand said that somebody in the project knows a > chinese website which sells those clips at a significantly lower price > than the usual ones, and that this information could be shared someway > on the website / mailing list. > > Does anybody know which website is that? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Elena ``of Valhalla'' > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > There are a number of chinese websites offering cheap SOIC clips, the most widely known is probably Alibaba/Aliexpress: http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=&SearchText=SOIC+clip These are certainly much cheaper than the expensive ones available in the "west" - though I don't know if the quality is adequate. Should you order some it would probably be interesting to give feedback on that. I don't see the need to explicitly promote a specific website on coreboots web presence as these are easy enough to find, and even the Pomona clips aren't that expensive anymore. -- thomasg
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