[Arm-netbook] 100 samples A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card

[alex allss]

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2013/4/15 luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>:
> ok - i'd like to put a preliminary batch order together for these
> first CPU Cards, as a way to test them, get them out there and get
> people familiar with them.  there are several caveats as these are
> ALPHA boards:
>
> * there is NO FCC/CE approval.
> * therefore you will be buying them AS-IS, as "test" / "engineering samples".
> * as with all test / engineering samples, there will be NO WARRANTY.
> * as with all test / engineering samples, there will be NO RETURNS.
> * there may be android pre-loaded (even working) but you'll need to
> help get alternative software up-and-running
> * these devices will *not* come with a case: it will be a bare PCB
> (with all its connectors)
>
> so those are the conditions.  we thought about doing a "club
> membership" in return for which you'd get access to a test /
> engineering sample but heck it's all the same, in the end.
>
> also as it's the very first boards, and it'll only be a small
> production run, the production costs will be slightly higher, and,
> also, you'd be helping to support the project.  i'm asking two PCB
> companies to quote for a run, but i should imagine it'll be somewhere
> around $100 excl. tax, shipping etc. etc.
>
> later on we will have a beta run, which will cross over with the
> flying squirrel PCB and at that point we'll get FCC/CE approval
> Certificates (between $7k and $15k) but as it'll be on the order of
> 10k units that's something that can be absorbed into the costings.
>
> so this is *before* all that, and you'll need to take that into account.
>
> so!  let's see.... how's best to do this.  could i ask people to
> modify the status on their preorder to "1stbatch"?   look for your
> preorder here:
> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/orders/
>
> or go directly to the link if you know it already, and edit the page
> so that the "Status" line says "1stbatch"?
>
> * Quantity: 2
> * Max Unit Price: $100
> * Max Budget: $100
> * Purpose: educational, development, testing for graduate school/university
> * Stage: alpha
> * Status: 1stbatch
>
> if you don't have an order already, then create one! :)
>
> also please take the opportunity to update to a VALID email address
> that's easy for the little order_processing.py program to "extract"
> your email address!
>
> i've covered the majority of the obfuscations, it's a huuuge list of
> over 100 different substitutions covering dot, doot, -dot-,
> "(this-is-a-d0t)", (youknow) and so on.  the full list is in the
> function translate_email at line 142, here:
> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/order_processing.py
>
> if anyone would like to pay _more_ than $100 in order to help support
> this project, then please do update the pricing accordingly on the
> preorder.
>
> if you would like to pay _less_ than $100 then please do put, after
> the preorder, a good reason why you feel that your input is valuable
> in some strategic way that will immediately help us to achieve the
> goal of getting these cards into mass-volume appliances world-wide.
>
> if we end up with more than 100 units, that's fine, we'll get to that.
>   if however it starts to go over 250 then we'll need to put a cut-off
> in place because we can't really justify shipping out that many "test
> samples" unless we do the "club membership" thing and you "get a free
> engineering sample" as part of the membership.
>
> ok that's all for now.  i'll do a quick clean-up of the preorders so
> you may find that your preorder has been moved to "not_valid" if the
> email's invalid, or if you put in an unrealistic price, despite the
> template saying "THE SALE PRICE IS NOT $15!!!!!!!".
>
> all good fun....
>
> l.
>
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