Tom Rini wrote: > I think trying to cut down an ATX board to notebook size would be harder > (or at least as hard) as designing your own board. In fact, this might > not be too hard (if you have some good EE guys) and a good deal of > knowledge. Be manage to make a mobo so... I think using the IBM stuff > as > a referance and doing a new board might be easier. But I'm no EE guy > myself.
I'm looking at it as I'm looking at redesigning onboard computers for cars. (Very very ambitious task, let me tell you. Did you know you only have about a cubic foot, if that, of room for the onboard computer in a '95 Escort hatchback?!) Basically, I believe it'd simply be a matter of different heat dissipation methods, and rearranging/splitting up the board into sepearte parts, with basic interconnects. (Just reroute traces to Molex connectors or something.) Sorta like PeeCee (*UGH!*) laptops, only cooler. I figure if we can get it to fit in a PC laptop case, all the better. 14.1" active matrix screens own you. (As opposed to the IBM ThinkPad 860 I have now, which is about as 'owning' as Unixware. Eww.) Another possibility I thought of is semi-emulating the ThinkPad 860. There's 4.3G SCSI *laptop* HDDs now, apparently. And we all know SCSI beats IDE any day. Sooo.. well.. you know where I'm going. (The ThinkPad 860 (603/166) has a 2x SCSI2 CD-ROM and a 2.5G SCSI2 HDD.) > But..But.. AirPort. :) NO! ABSOLUTELY *NOT!* ;) -prj
