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

[Gordan Bobic]

On 07/30/2012 01:26 PM, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On 07/30/12 13:17, 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?
>
> i have had to use a 1366xwhatever laptop for the last few months.
> irrespective of the screen size, anything less that 1080p is a waste of
> money. you can never have too fast a processor, too much memory or too
> many pixels.

I'm glad that there is at last somebody else here that understands that 
pixel count is the single most important part of the laptop spec.

Gordan