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</font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Hi,</font></font></p><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If it helps :</font></font></p><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Originally I was looking at a nifty little $40 imx53 board
genesi was bringing out mid-year 2011 .. but they pulled it towards the end of last
year I’m guessing because both of the rapid pace of SOC developments and the
smell in the wind of things such as the raspi :</font></font></p><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">But <span style> </span>it’s interesting
to note the price differential between their product lines then (and still now
as they are supposedly releasing soon iMX6 based updates)</font></font></p><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Smarttop - <span style> </span><span style> </span><span style> </span>USD 129</font></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Netbook -<span style> </span>USD 199 </font></font></div>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">As I say from recollection it is basically the same board
inside both so the delta (without considering closeouts, discounts, loss
leading etc) presumably reflects <span style> </span>in some
way the <span style> </span>incremental cost (for small
number of sales) of the netbook (10.1” 1024x600, no HD <span style> </span>and the usual netbook stuff)</font></font></p><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><a href="https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/</font></a></p><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">looking on "retail" sites in the uk (eg <a href="http://play.com">play.com</a>, <a href="http://scan.co.uk">scan.co.uk</a>) a 60GB 2.5 SATA drive runs a little over GBP20 which (after knocking off commercial discounts is not a huge incremental amount) </font></div>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">rgds</font></font></p><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">ian</font></font></p><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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