[Arm-netbook] ARM Laptop : 14'' Nufront Newton (was RE: 1ghz ARM Laptop (12in 1280x800 LCD))

[Baybal Ni]

For last 6 month I tried to contact them 3 times, from different
e-mails and still have no answer.

>everything else seems to belong to a "geeky" dream with a lot of misconceptions too numerous to mention.

Please continue, we would appreciate 3rd party expertise. For now, we
have not yet settled even with a conception for proposed device, not
to say complete BOM.

On 8 February 2011 23:48, Guillaume FORTAINE <gfortaine at live.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Let me introduce myself : Guillaume FORTAINE, Engineer in Computer Science.
>
> I have read with interest the topic started by Mister Leighton entitled " 1ghz ARM Laptop (12in 1280x800 LCD)" and I would greatly appreciate to share my conclusions with you.
>
> First of all, I would want to mention that except the comments of Mister Sealey, coming from a really smart engineer, everything else seems to belong to a "geeky" dream with a lot of misconceptions too numerous to mention.
>
> But to come back to the "1ghz ARM Laptop" topic :
>
> -12in 1280x800
>
> a) You have already 10.1in screens with 1280x720 resolution support [0]
>
> b) You even have 10.1in screens with 1366x768 resolution support [1]
>
>
> -1Ghz ARM Laptop
>
> As previously mentioned by Forum Blogarm.net, there is Nufront [2] with their NuSmart 2816 SoC (2x2Ghz Cortex A9, Data Brief in English) [3].
>
> And, if your are lazy, like me, you will directly buy a 14'' Nufront Newton [4] (Rock Yang, yuxin.yang at nufront.com, VP Marketing) [5].
>
> Best Regards,
>
> [0] http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/netbook/2011/Acer/Aspire/AspireOneAO522/AspireOneAO522sp2.shtml
> [1] http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-duo/pd
> [2] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2011-January/000823.html
> [3] http://um00i1.chinaw3.com/Nufront_NuSmartTM_2816_EN.pdf
> [4] http://www.netbooknews.com/17640/14-nufront-newton-with-the-dual-core-cortex-a9/
> [5] http://cn.linkedin.com/pub/rock-yang/8/236/93a
>
> Guillaume FORTAINE
> Tel : +33(0)631092519
> Mail : gfortaine at gfortaine.biz
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>> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:32:55 +0000
>> From: luke.leighton at gmail.com
>> To: gordan at bobich.net
>> CC: shnurapet at fedoraproject.org; arm at lists.fedoraproject.org; arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk
>> Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] [fedora-arm] 1ghz ARM Laptop (12in 1280x800 LCD)
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Gordan Bobic  wrote:
>> > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> >
>> >>> Unfortunately, I'm not a hardware hacker. But, as a consumer, I'd say
>> >>> that a "1gb NAND Flash" is quite a bit below the level. I also wouldn't care
>> >>> much about a 1280x720 screen if the hardware wouldn't be capable of playing
>> >>> the video flawlessly. Or, if there was an HDMI port to connect to TV, which
>> >>> is, in my taste, better suited for watching.
>> >>
>> >>  yep - all the designs i've worked on, and all the CPUs found (so far)
>> >> were selected precisely because of the HDMI output capability.  i'd
>> >> kinda ruled out the spea1310 because you need an extra IC converting
>> >> LCD to DVI/HDMI or even *shudder* a PCI-e graphics IC (volari Z11 god
>> >> help us is about the only free-software-compatible option)
>> >
>> > I was just thinking about that, actually. If you're making a custom mobo,
>> > then as long as you can find an ARM SoC tht has PCI-e, you could just apply
>> > an MXM module and plug in an ATI or Nvidia GPU for which we already have
>> > passably working OSS drivers.
>> >
>> > Of course, this defeats the purpose of the exercise - who in their right
>> > mind would use a 2W CPU with a 30W+ GPU in a laptop?
>>
>> *ROTFL*. yyep. the volari z11 is what ended up in the openrd
>> ultimate, for pretty much these reasons. yes, i've been looking
>> around for an IC that does 3D graphics at lower power. there are a
>> couple from broadcomm but broadcomm are a f*****g nightmare to work
>> with. their attitude can be summarised as "your product will fail,
>> therefore we are not interested".
>>
>> it's very interesting that it's been the U.S. companies whose
>> attitude has been "your product will fail, therefore we do not wish to
>> be involved". i find this fascinating.
>>
>> >>  gordon is right about the SD/MMC card thing, but the "level 10" ones
>> >> can at least guarantee above 10mbytes/sec *read* capability.   so
>> >> _yes_ to the SATA interface.
>> >
>> > The 10MB/s is _supposed_ to be for worst-case sequential writes. There is,
>> > however, no defined benchmark, and manufacturers are free to do their own
>> > testing. Most fail any sane real-world measurements of the specification.
>>
>> oops.
>>
>> > I'm glad we agree on anything other than SATA being unworkable. :)
>>
>> weell, i'm covering all the angles. genesyslogic's ICs are about $1
>> - $1.50 even in small volumes so it's not as if it'll break the bank
>> by putting one on the motherboard, in the case where the CPU itself
>> doesn't have SATA.
>>
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