On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:43 PM, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> Hi gang! >> >> http://blog.laptop.org/2012/09/04/are-you-working-with-xo-laptops-that-need-an-upgrade/ >> >> So, is there a minimum number of motherboards that one has to buy? >> Pricing? > > Both answers should be available from the email listed in the blog: > [email protected]. > >> Any other details? > > We've supported this from the beginning by design. Kits have been available > as spare parts for deployments to purchase. Upgrading an XO-1 to an XO-1.5 > or higher motherboard requires the insertion of a small metal bracket to hold > the > WLAN card. The XO-1.5/1.75 chassis are mechanically identical. > Upgrading an earlier laptop to an XO-4 motherboard will require a > small rubber piece inserted to change the size of one chassis hole > from USB to micro HDMI. > > Unfortunately, the mechanics of XO-4 Touch mean it cannot be retrofitted. > You can get the higher performance by upgrading to an XO-4, but sadly > no multi-touch support. > > A kit includes all the parts needed to upgrade a particular laptop model. In > addition to a motherboard (if XO-4 with an internal connector missing) > this generally includes a new heat spreader, a WLAN card (if needed), and > conductive foam/tape as needed to improve the ESD shielding of the earlier > chassis. We do perform some testing of older laptops upgraded to each > new motherboard design in order to construct appropriate upgrade kits. > > Cheers, > wad > > >
Thanks for the details. I was walking through a replacement workflow in my mind for my Jamaica and India projects, and I realized that if/once the upgrades are done, one would be left with several older working motherboards. What's to become of these? If someone could design a chassis to hold a bunch of boards together...imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! (sorry, couldn't resist). "Is that a lunch box? No, it's my Beowolf cluster. Can I compute something for you?" cheers, Sameer _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
