[Arm-netbook] Good netbook based on Cortex-A9

[Gordan Bobic]

On 07/30/2012 01:17 PM, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> On 30 July 2012 13:41, lkcl luke<luke.leighton at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   but before doing that, we need to define what people would be
>> prepared to fund!  we have on one extreme end, gordan who loves 15in
>> 1920x1080 laptops, and on the other extreme we have the 10in
>> form-factor with *shudder* 1024x600 LCDs.  i think we have enough
>> sense, collectively, to appreciate that skimping on the screen is bad?
>> thus a minimum can be set of 1280x768.
>>
>>   i'd be inclined to go for adapting a straightforward preexisting 12in
>> x86 "no-brand" laptop.  12in with a 1280x768 (or 1280x800) LCD is the
>> right sort of size.  keep the battery the same, so that it can still
>> be bought off-the-shelf.  still make it possible to take a 2.5in SATA
>> drive.
>
> are 1366x768 ~12" harder to find or notably more expensive?

12" is a pretty dud size. Very few panels available. 10" goes to 
1920x1200 now (Asus Transformer Prime HD). The only higher res options 
from there are 15" (2048x1536, 4:3) and 15.4" (2880x1800, 16:10).

10" and 15" sizes also have many different panels available in different 
resolutions. Everything inbetween is poorly supplied and comes with a 
very limited choice of resolutions, and because it's not popular, it 
costs more, too. So why bother? Just because some "large company" wants 
to proceed with their fixation on 14" laptops doesn't mean that those of 
us that are better informed should follow them like lemmings.

Gordan