[Arm-netbook] Crowd Sourcing Proposal

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/11/2012 04:34 PM, luke.leighton wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>  wrote:
>> On 10/11/2012 03:24 PM, luke.leighton wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> It'd be nice if the said box for the lapdock had a SATA disk slot in it.
>>>> That would tick of pretty much all requirements in one go.
>>>
>>>    yeahyeahyeah.  i looked on alibaba a couple of days ago - there's one
>>> company with the word "lapdock" in their products.  they weren't
>>> interested in adapting them [too busy?].  will keep searching.  i want
>>> lots of options.
>>
>> You do realize we are talking about a box with an EOMA connector that
>> plugs into the lapdock, not the lapdock itself, right?
>
>   i worked that out afterwards :)

I would have thought that your contacts at the university that were 
going to design the laptop should be able to design a plugin box for an 
Atrix lapdock pretty easily. Granted, this will never become a huge 
seller, but it would at least get EOMA off the ground for relatively low 
development costs, with a product that is feasibly crowdfundable. Not to 
mention that with minimal additional changes the box would work 
standalone, too (for those that want to plug in a USB mouse/keyboard and 
plug it into a TV via HDMI/DVI). That covers two big use-cases (desktop 
and laptop) from the start. Not ideal, but certainly much more workable 
than a bare EOMA card with nothing to plug it into.

Gordan