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

[David Niklas]

On  Sat, 27 May 2017 18:56:18 +0100
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> 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.
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Do you still know where your write up is?

Thanks,
David