[Arm-netbook] eoma68-a20 1stbatch

[Christopher Thomas]

I'll submit my payment when I get Back this afternoon. 

Christopher Thomas

On Jun 8, 2013, at 3:16 PM, "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, status update:
> 
> * a batch of 30 test units has now been paid for
> * we have 22 samples/test-units going out to 18 people
> * one of those is being bought and donated to OpenBSD (thank you fred!)
> * we've graciously received offers of 2 donations (many thanks to aexl
> and seeberg)
> * we're still short of about 2 units to break even
> * the HDMI connector has been updated
> * the SD0 signals have been routed to the 68-pins so JTAG is accessible
> 
> there's a few surprises in there, which i've kept quiet about until
> solutions were available: one was the HDMI connector.  i can laugh
> about it now but it wasn't amazingly funny at the time: we weren't
> advised that the part we were buying was going end-of-life.  we've
> found a replacement now (from the same company) - it's a "reverse"
> MicroHDMI so is just upside-down and a little lower down.
> 
> the other is that if we reduced the batch to 25 we'd only save about
> $200 because it's the NREs on a run that are the highest cost, so
> might as well go ahead with 30 units, but we're short (not as much as
> we were before aexl's kind offer) of about 2 samples being sent out in
> order to break even.  if we have 1 or 2 more brave souls we're
> covered.
> 
> getting there....
> 
> l.
> 
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