On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
netbook (10 to 11in 1280x800 LCD) no problem, laptop (1400x900 or above), requires some cash.
Laptop shipments are sequentially down year on year and vertical definitions such as x800 or x900 and just yuk. Even a 7" padphone now sports IPS 1920x1200 resolution costing retail USD200. Getting one of those 7" screens into a laptop would be neat as it would outdo most commercial offerings with a better screen. For $180 the 9.3" tablets with 2048*1536 screens available (e.g. Onda V975M). Getting one of those into 'Ubuntu laptop' would steal the show.
niiice. however (cross-over posting) i need to redo the metal casework down to 3.3mm to get back up to 1920x1080, that will require re-tooling costs, a minor redesign and sourcing of a matching Mid-Mount Micro-HDMI Type D connector. the part we found previously (reverse mid-mount from Amphenol) went end-of-life. they still have the tooling: they can do another run if there is an order of 1 million units or above. the only other part found so far is from Molex and it's $1.30 instead of $0.30.
so quite a bit of work needed so i am reserving that for the next few months once sales are in.
remember joe, unlike even your own business there is no income yet, i cannot just drop $10,000 to $20,000 into tooling so unless someone comes up with that money things have to be done in a bootstrap sequence.
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