[Arm-netbook] pricing on eoma68 cards

[alex allss]

It maybe related with future board revisions, it common to have many
replug when hacking typicaly. I think you will get some reviews after
first real usages(after first shipments), and find some weak points. I
simply try predict some common problems that I have with simular
hardware.

2013/4/16 luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:55 PM, alex allss <wingrime at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just saw this vendor http://www.hosiden.com/ but it realy hard to
>> say about steel quality and thinkness looking to datasheets
>
>  alex, thanks for the link.  http://www.hosiden.com/product/pdf/e_ifc.pdf#hdmi
>
>  unfortunately their micro-hdmi type D part (p24) is a TOP mount part.
>  there isn't room for TOP mount components: they would stick out by
> around 0.4 mm *through* the top of the case.
>
>  we absolutely absolutely absolutely must have micro-hdmi type D *MID* mount.
>
>  likewise with the micro USB, again it has to be MID mount.  their
> USB-AB part (p 15) is a *TOP* mount.
>
>  it was generally absolute hell to track down the parts that we could
> find.  we only actually ever found _two_ suppliers of mid-mount
> micro-hdmi type D: one was amphenol and the other was molex (the PDFs
> are at the URL on hands.com).
>
>  their part CCD1360 - micro-sd however - *might* be ok, but i will
> need a more comprehensive datasheet.
>
> also, to establish communication with them, to go through the "who the
> hell are you, why would be want to take your money" questions at this
> late stage, i'm kinda reluctant to do that, especially as it would
> potentially mean a board re-spin and thus yet another lot of NREs and
> design fees, so unless someone has a *REALLY* good reason i'd like to
> go with what we've picked.
>
>  these questions - although they're great questions - really should
> have been asked a year ago when we were picking the parts and
> suppliers!! :)
>
> l.
>
>
>>>  well, you can examine the datasheets on the parts selected:
>>>    http://hands.com/~lkcl/eoma/allwinner/
>
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