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Luke,<br>
Need clarification on this so-dimm. For USD 150.00 this includes all
revisions? ..until we get the all the fine tuning done? .. or will
additional funding be required until we have a final so-dimm?<br>
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How many are in? If many are in - then the price goes down? If there
are others that want a new CT-PC89E/Seatron type netbook - maybe they
would also want to have the new so-dimm ...<br>
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For the new so-dimm what I think we need is:<br>
1. 1GHz processor <br>
2. 512MB RAM<br>
3. Micro SD card slot for the hard drive - which means it is possible
to always upgrade memory to the highest available<br>
4. Nand flash can be included on the so-dimm if there is space - but i
cannot see the point of having this if we are going to have a micro-sd
slot<br>
5. Pinouts or switch for emergency recovery<br>
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You mentioned that there is space to make the so-dimm a little longer
as there is a bit of space inside the case which can be utilized<br>
<br>
We have to make sure that non-Chitech type CT-PC89E's share the same
motherboard or what the differences are ...<br>
<br>
Adam<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Joakim Seeberg <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kontakt@seebergit.dk"><kontakt@seebergit.dk></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I will donate USD $150 to the project. Specs looks fine to me.
- Joakim
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joakim, thank you - that's absolutely great. i've been speaking with
james over the past couple of days. he says that:
* if we get 20 samples done, it is way too small to do an SMT run, so
he will use an iron bed to solder the components by hand, himself
* the cost of each SO-DIMM he estimates to be about $43 (even at
sample pricing for the components)
* there is a one-off setup charge of $1150 or so for a PCB
manufacturer to create the tooling for the PCB
* there is one other cost that he's going to look up and find out about.
what's behind this is that i've been talking to james and the people
he's working for some months, they are designing a PDA using the exact
same components. james will do the PDA first, get that done; i will
be helping him to get the linux kernel running on it; then we will
have a tried-and-tested PCB, convert it to an SO-DIMM by removing
everything we don't need, and the linux kernel will be done, already,
ready to merge with the CT-PC89E design.
it's not _quite_ going to be that simple, because i have to get all
the pinouts - many thanks to ben dooks for advising me on how the
DM9000 works, i will look for the RESET, SELECT and nWAIT lines next,
that will be another 1.5% of the job done :)
l.
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