[Arm-netbook] A10 devkits

[lkcl luke]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 15:18, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>>>> any progress? The Spring festival is coming :-/
>>>
>>>  yeah i know.
>>>
>>>  i think basically, eva's asked the upper management, and the answer
>>> was no: she can't ask again.
>>
>> expectable... so how do we proceed now to buy the kits approved for $250? :-)
>
> sad... I really hoped to be able to get the kit shipped before the
> spring festival

 ... mmm... i've been kinda reluctant to push it, because, well... if
you've got $250 to spare, i'd rather see it go towards EOMA68
hardware, to be honest!

 also, one of the reasons for asking for the devkit was because it
comes with the PCB schematics, and the key critical part that we
needed was the CPU-DDR3 RAM portion.  we've got that now (thank you to
wits-tech for making it available) so there's no reason for anyone to
take up the Accounts Dept's time at allwinner tech which will probably
cost them _more_ than the profit-margin they'd make on selling anyone
the damn devkit!

 and, given that pretty much any 7in allwinner a10 tablet, esp with
that SD-MMC break-out board and with USB booting is pretty much
identical to the devkit _and_ is 1/2 the price...

 l.