[Arm-netbook] Regarding Improv, EOMA68, Free Software and Open Hardware.

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:29 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>> o the cases we want to cover are:
>>
>>  * 320x240 RGB/TTL screen at very low cost (these are all RGB/TTL)
>>  * 1024-1280 x 600-1024 screen at reasonable cost (these are all
>>    LVDS 1x but a _few_ eDPs are becoming available)
>>  * 1440x900 to 1920x1080 at not unreasonable cost (these are
>>    usually Dual or Triple LVDS with some now 4-lane eDP and so on)
>
> hmmmp.
>
> Yesterday this may have been true.
> Today the starting point is something like
> a 7" tablet with retail price of $50 and min 800x600.
> With tablet guts removed and a HDMI/VGA/Composite input
> board fitted, that price shrinks to $30 retail.
>
> Also if tablets were a little more open,
> load an OS that turns the tablet
> into a USB monitor may be possible = another
> opportunity for EOMAs to sell in their beeellions.

 exactly..  with a pass-through card any device with a screen,
touchpanel, mouse, internal hard drive etc basically becomes an
extension system for desktop PCs, other devices - anything.

 i did a case study where hilariously if you have 2 devices, one CPU
Card and one pass-through card it actually doesn't matter what you
plug in to what, you still end up with one computer with 2 screens.

l.