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

[Gordan Bobic]

On 07/30/2012 08:32 PM, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> 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 ;-)

If you're concerned about cost you'll be buying an AC100 anyway.

> but an
> ass-kicking open source friendly 10" 1920x1200 laptop will catch far
> more attention as there are mostly no competitors (yet).

That depends. How OS frieldy is it really? Upstreamed kernel support for 
everything? Substantially cheaper than the competition with 5x the raw 
CPU performance with all other things being equal?

Gordan