[Arm-netbook] why are notebook devices not usb?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Christopher Havel
<laserhawk64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Money. It's cheaper to do it that way..

 yyep.  this s pretty much.. errr... on the money

> There's also the form factor to consider -- to an extent, there are no
> standards for laptop gadgetry because there's no way to do that. Different
> laptop sizes and shapes require differently-sized and -shaped crap inside.

 ... all completely optimised and customised based around what they
can get hold of, or what the reference design from intel is (which
will have specific power requirements and thermal requirements)...then
there is the constant demand for "thin-ness" which, as chris says,
means that a CUSTOM CONNECTOR gets ordered and made... and you can't
get hold of them.

 ron i wrote a long time ago when developing the tablet, about using a
single embedded controller which only costs $1, instead of putting in
a $1 USB hub, a $1.50 USB camera, a $1 USB audio IC and so on.

 it all adds up and the margins are so insanely low on laptops - ten
percent FOR THE ENTIRE CHAIN right from factory to sales - that they
just cannot justify the extra cost.

l.