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

[Alejandro Mery]

On 30 July 2012 21:25, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On 07/30/2012 05:29 PM, lkcl luke 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?  the I/O Board can be made reasonably
>> flexible, if the right matching cases are found and enough flying
>> leads put on it, it might be possible to use the same I/O Board for 2
>> different laptops, especially if they have a CD-ROM hole and that's
>> used as the EOMA-68 CPU Card slot as well as having several of the
>> connectors on it (just ignoring all other holes).
>>
>>   also as previously mentioned it should not be hard to do an LCD
>> Daughter Board, with an FPC over to it with about 32 pins or so:
>> that'd be enough to transfer the RGB/TTL signals, some power and a PWM
>> signal (for backlight control).  the daughter board in the 1080p case
>> could have a dual LVDS IC on it, and for the 720p a single LVDS IC.
>>
>>   i'd really like the single LVDS IC version to cover at least two 10in
>> LCD panels - 1024x600 *shudder*, 1200x720, maybe 1388x768 - but we
>> need to find matching parts that all have the same connector and the
>> same LCD Backlight design and voltages.
>
> The problem is that while 1024 and 1280 panels are physically the same
> size, the only 1366 panel isn't. I'd pretty much ignore the 1366
> possibility alltogether. There is no choice of panels, and if you make
> the chassis fit it, it won't fit the other panels properly.
>
> The problem is also lack of distinction. Many competing products have
> 1024 or 1280 panels. Only one has 1920x1200, and that's, as mentioned,
> 16:10, so you're stuck with a chice of 1 again because hardly anyone
> makes 10" 16:10 panels. But if you're going to make 1920x1200 laptops,
> why bother with a lower res option? People will be buying it for the
> high res screen. For 1280 there are already better options than the A10,
> including the AC100 and the Genesi.

I assume the reason to care about >1000p is cost ;-)  but an
ass-kicking open source friendly 10" 1920x1200 laptop will catch far
more attention as there are mostly no competitors (yet).

so... price gross estimations anyone?