[Arm-netbook] small exynos5 pc (ARM Cortex A15, 2gb RAM)

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* luke.leighton (luke.leighton at gmail.com) wrote:
> [cc to arm-netbook and debian-arm, please bear in mind arm-netbook is
> subscriber-only]
> 
> this is just to let people know that i had a fascinating conversation
> with insignal's director, today.  insignal do the
> http:/arndaleboard.org/ which is the developer board containing the
> Exynos5 ARM Cortex A15 SoC.  he mentioned that they've been madly busy
> getting the arndaleboard ready, working very very hard, so are going a
> little easier on themselves before releasing the source code etc.
> which kinda makes sense and explains the dec2012 release of the linux
> kernel source etc.
> 
> but, the very interesting thing he mentioned was their plans to do a
> $99 PC using the same CPU Board.  as it would have SATA and so on as
> well as 2gb of RAM i get the impression that they could well be
> overwhelmed with enquiries and orders, just from the free software
> community alone, so as a community can i please encourage people to
> take it easy on them and let them do the official announcements etc.
> so that, apart from anything, they can focus!
> 
> the reason why i'm mentioning it on here, unofficially, is to gather
> some informal input as to whether people would be interested in such a
> device before contacting insignal again; what sort of features, uses
> etc. what would people be prepared to pay for an initial run of 100 to
> 200 units as a test-run, and so on.

Either multiple ether or a PCI-e slot to add a multiport ether card.
Bonus for multiple PCI-e slots.

Dave
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