[Arm-netbook] crowd sourcing proposal

[Gordan Bobic]

On 12/25/2011 10:46 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>  wrote:
>> On 12/25/2011 09:32 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> formally submit it to one of the sites?  step 1, probably a good idea
>>>>>>> to create a wiki page to write up a draft proposal
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.hands.com//allwinner_a10/crowd_funding_proposal/
>>>>
>>>> I am dyslexic, so excuse any grammar mistakes - I can not see them.
>>>
>>>    ok, the page itself looks great - the amusing thing is that for a
>>> dyslexic person you can type "wiki.hands.com" pretty well, rather than
>>> "rhombus-tech.net" :)  anyway, i've moved the page to here:
>>> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/crowd_funding_proposal/
>>>
>>>    ok, my immediate thoughts are as follows, please do critique it:
>>>
>>>    * trusting merit to create the CPU card, the next most important
>>> thing is to pick a suitable chassis
>>>
>>>    * personally i cannot stand tablets.  they're... truly dreadful.
>>>
>>>    * i keep harping on about laptops, after all, duh, this is the name
>>> of the list :)
>>>
>>>    * thus we come full circle back to 10in, 12in or 15in
>>>
>>>    * and gordan's mad idea for a 15in 1920x1080 laptop :)
>>
>> 15.4" was for 1920x1200. For 1920x1080 it was 13.3", like on the Vaio-Z. :p
>
>   ahh.  oh ok, that's better [*quails*]
>
>> But the real kick in the teeth is that screens based on tech that offers
>> very good power consumption (OLED and PixelQi) aren't available in
>> larger sizes or high resolutions. The best that is likely to be
>> available in the foreseeable future is the PixelQi 1280x800 10.1"
>> screen.
>
>   at bloody last - a screen that isn't a f*****g stupid resolution.

Well, I'm using an AC100 with 1280x720 at the moment. It's not great, 
but it's borderline possible to make-do with without lugging a full fat 
15" laptop.

>   that would be superb.  the power requirements of 10in are about 2.5x
> less than for 15in LCDs.

Sure - so on a 15" screen the power saving in absolute terms would also 
be 2.5x bigger. :)

>   http://pixelqi.com/products
>
>   ah bugger.  it says "in development".

That's why I said "in the foreseeable future" rather than "now". :)

>> I can probably just about live with that for now and break out
>> my trusty ThinkPad with a 2048x1536 screen for the heavy stuff.
>
>   yeah me too.  actually the resolution on the pixelqi screens is
> 1280x3 by 800.  i wish they'd done it 1280x2 by 800x2 which would give
> staggering B&W usage, but that would be too much for poor old
> companies who can't program, bless 'em.

Yeah, it's quite lame, it is bound to cause all kinds of scaling issues 
in most sane use-cases.

Gordan