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

[Gordan Bobic]

On 07/30/2012 05:42 PM, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> On 30 July 2012 18:29, lkcl luke<luke.leighton at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Alejandro Mery<amery at geeks.cl>  wrote:
>>> On 30 July 2012 17:44, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>  wrote:
>>>> On 07/30/2012 03:19 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
>>>>>    ok - so that's good to know.  it'd be helpful to get a list of part
>>>>> numbers known to be interchangeable.  can you recall what they are?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I haven't really kept track of part numbers, over and above what
>>>> I wrote up in the relevant articles which I linked previously.
>>>
>>> I think the goal of luke's question is to find a pair of compatible
>>>> =720p and>=1080p panels so we can have to models of the same eoma68
>>> laptop
>>
>>   ideally, yes.  although it is really up to you guys: what do *you*
>> want to see in a laptop?
>
> to set some ranges:
> size wise personally I find 10" too small, and ~13.3" the absolute
> max. ~12" been my personal favourite.
> resolution wise, I personally find 1280x720 too small. and 1900x1200
> amazing, but not critical.

And what are the panel options at 12-13.3" >= 1366x768? I suspect it is 
very few.

> for me 10" would only be interesting for me with amazing screen,
> amazing battery life, and amazing construction quality. hopefully not
> far more expensive than a transformer :p

Therein lies another snag. If it's not substantially cheaper than a 
Transformer Prime HD, it's going to be a flop just on spec. The 
Transformer already has 1920x1200 screen, 1GB of RAM (max for A10), and 
a 5-core Tegra3 CPU. Yes, it's Nvidia and we all love to hate them for 
their unspeakably attrocious binary driver quality and their attitudes 
toward the open source community, but idealism only goes so far when you 
can make do with the situation for the other benefits.

Gordan