[Arm-netbook] Selecting the right Soc for out ARM Notebook project.

[lkcl luke]

michel, apologies: i am currently travelling so did not have access to
the "approve" button on the mailing list, i'm forwarding this on your
behalf, please could people cc to michel in replies temporarily?

michel, i would be very _very_ interested to speak with you if you
would like to do an EOMA-68 laptop.

l.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Michel Memeteau - Société Ekimia" <contact at ekimia.fr>
To: arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk
Cc:
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 10:19:17 +0200
Subject: Selecting the right Soc for out ARM Notebook project.
Hi ,


Me and my company start to think about launching a project for a 13
inches ARM laptop running ubuntu, with Specs on Par with the current
ultramobile laptops.

We followed the recent tryout :

- Toshiba AC100 with tegra2
- genesi with Efika  Freescale
- Asus with the Transformer.
- else ?

Although I love my  AC100 I always feel that the Soc choice was not that good.

It's usually a problem of open source GPU driver availability.


The recent popularity of the All winner A10 , even if less powerful
than some of its competitor Mali-400 is a great choice even if the
drivers are not opened.


i'd like to think all contributors to the Wiki page
http://rhombus-tech.net/evaluated_cpus/ and the corresponding notes on
source code access.

I see that samsung Enyxos is also a good Start

http://rhombus-tech.net/enyxos4410/

And with the New Quad 1,4 Ghz , Do people think it could be a better
choice compared to Allwinner A10 ?

maybe for difficult to obtain for Mass production of PCB ?



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