[Arm-netbook] hyston - SATA ?

[krasi gichev]

If you look on the left, behind the RJ45 and DSUB connectors, you can
recognize the footprint of 2.5" SATA HDD connector - power and data
lines.
I agree completely with rest of your post - I don't care about case or
power supply either. The remote is only good for basic  multimedia, I
would switch immidiately to proper wireless keyboard/trackball or
touchpad combo.
How to obtain it - that's the real question. Here (in Bulgaria) we
also have 20% VAT. I think that these companies (Hyston) will never
care about sending single pieces, even if the price is 300%. The only
way is to have somebody near them who can obtain several boards and
ship them to Europe. I would really like to see this kind of boards on
eBay. I will pay 50 bucks for this board without questions (and wait 3
weeks), but I have no idea who can handle this. I know that
goodluckbuy.com has all kind of electronic stuff, and I can ask if
they can get hand on similar boards. If anybody knows other resellers
from far east, let's ask them!

2012/4/26 moo cow <magcrap at gmail.com>:
> hi,
>
> the hyson board looks really interesting .. it looks like theres may be SATA
> connectors on the flip side of the board  obove the rectangular box lines
> ? ?
>
> board only is particularly attractive as many of us will probably use it
> "sans" remote and have tons of 5V2A UK/EU power supplies hanging around ...
> the mele is a nice neat solution though with the spiffy case and SATA CADDY
> :-)
>
> be v. interested at this price especially if it has the SATA connectors
> onboard and is of course easily hackable but at the end of the day
> the shipping is the real killer for this kind of value for us in the UK :-(
>
> in the UK we get potentially shafted with duty/VAT @20% or more and the high
> shipping cost for 1 board plus we get shafted on top of this a "duty
> collection" fee by the courier (so in the case of china post UK Parcel force
> charge a large collection fee which is despite being technically illegal for
> them to do this in the UK under the postal regulations)
>
> Perhaps the best way is to ship a package of 20 or so boards to somebody
> somewhere in the EU with lower VAT/Duty rates (eg Luxembourg) and then ship
> them onwards within the EU with pretty reasonable insured postage and zero
> VAT/duties/collection fees to be paid further on in the EU  ... the high
> china courier shipping (and any duty collection fee)  is then averaged out
> across the 20 boards ...  this is a good bit of workload though for the
> person in Lux etc .. but an idea maybe to get the benefit of board priceing
> just over $40  ... theres enough waste in The EC we may as well try if we
> can to use one of the few great benefits ;-)
>
> rgds
>
> ian
>
>
>
>
>
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