[Arm-netbook] Housing idea: screenless laptop

[Matt Campbell]

Hi Luke,

I'm glad you're interested, though at this point, we're clearly talking 
about a whole new product, not a simple adaptation of the 15.6" laptop 
housing.

If we're talking about a whole new product anyway, I've decided to 
maximize the potential portability by basing it on a braille keyboard 
rather than a QWERTY one. I've filled out the page you created, and it 
explains what I mean. Let me know if this is the kind of information you 
want, and what kind of dimensions you think would be feasible for 
something with the specs I've outlined.

Matt

On 9/12/2016 7:43 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Matt Campbell <mattcampbell at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, it seems to me that if sighted people can have their 7-inch tablets
>> for content consumption, it's not totally unreasonable to want a computer
>> housing that's optimized for the way blind people work.
>
>  actually at this point i'd be more interested in doing a simple
> housing for partially-sighted people than i would a 7in tablet.  the
> reason is that just as you say, it's a specialist community that would
> appreciate it more.
>
>  the 7in tablet market, people are going to compare an EOMA68 7in
> tablet housing against... a mass-produced 7in tablet.  they're going
> to see the extra cost and the extra thickness, and conclude "that's
> utterly rubbish!!!!".
>
>  whereas people in the partially-sighted market who are getting
> proprietary high-priced crud would be *really grateful* for something
> that is clearly a long-term cost-saving investment as opposed to a
> throw-away device.  they'll go "huh, i can upgrade this later... oh,
> and i can transfer the *actual computer* to a bigger device which
> someone who *does* have good sight can help me out... or i can
> transfer the *actual computer* into a device with a huge LCD on it".
>
>  i'm referencing this discussion here on
> http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/partially_sighted_handheld/
> but could i ask you a favour and to fill that in with a bit of the
> specs of things that people *actually want* - or if there is some
> community that you know of, reach out to them and ask them "what do
> you *really* want to have?"
>
>> Now, having written that rather long-winded message, that's probably all
>> I'll say on this subject, unless I eventually put in the time to improve
>> GNU/Linux desktop accessibility. Anyway, I hope this was of some interest to
>> some people on this list.
>
>  *yes*.
>
> l.
>
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