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

[Alejandro Mery]

On 30 July 2012 21:36, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> 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?

well, the point of eoma68 is that the laptop part will remain after
you upgrade to a newer/better CPU card while the competitor will
totally dish support once the next generation comes out