[Arm-netbook] New Eoma68 housing idea

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Vincent Legoll
<vincent.legoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's on the home page:
>
> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-laptop-ubuntu-or-win-10-os-laptop--2/pica

 okay i know the z8750, there are two variants, the T3 and the T4.
the T4 maxes out at 8GB ram and has a vast number of pins - i forget
how many but i believe it's like... 1000 or something.  the pitch is
ridiculously small.  it's basically a seriously-complex, very compact
design which will need some highly specialist engineering.

 they've also used rather deceptive marketing by comparing a 1.6ghz
quad-core intel atom to the top-end i3 / i5 / i7 processors used in
the macbook pro series.  i don't know if any of their backers have
noticed that but they're highly unlikely to be impressed with the
performance.  mind you, the size and look of the device is great, so
they may not mind.

yes, it would be awesome for it to be an upgradeable concept.  the
only thing is: 5mm cards in something that small means that the depth
has to be increased to a minimum of around....12mm. 1mm for the case,
1.5mm for the PCB, 6mm for the Card and appx 3-4mm for the keyboard.

 the type I cards (3.3mm height) were what i wanted to move to, for
this kind of product design.  it will require a large order in order
to justify re-tooling of the PCMCIA socket to a *mid-mount*
low-profile design.  what can then be done is that the 3.3mm Card can
sit *FLUSH* with the *BOTTOM* edge of the PCB, in a cut-out section.
it then sits about 1.8mm above a 1.5mm PCB which is perfectly
acceptable.

however this requires either a sponsor, or a lot of backers, or...
etc. to get the tooling made.

l.