[Arm-netbook] New Eoma68 housing idea

[Bill Kontos]

Did you see the amount of money they raised ? They are sitting at over
900k$ out of 200k$ needed originally. There is an insane market for these
devices that I totally didn't expect. I know their older product which was
more of a retro gaming/console thing with analog controllers was hugely
successful in S. Korea.  Now that thing is probably outdated for a
reasonable windows experience. I can easily see this becoming a major
success with the added bonus of upgradability. I really think this could
work very well to the benefit of the standard. Also given that for freedom
reasons we are stuck with older and cheaper SoCs that do not support 3d via
f/oss drivers it also makes more sense to make a housing for a market that
also has lower power expectations.

2017-02-17 16:48 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:

> 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.
>
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