[Arm-netbook] Good netbook based on Cortex-A9

Alejandro Mery amery at geeks.cl
Mon Jul 30 13:17:27 BST 2012


On 30 July 2012 13:41, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>  but before doing that, we need to define what people would be
> prepared to fund!  we have on one extreme end, gordan who loves 15in
> 1920x1080 laptops, and on the other extreme we have the 10in
> form-factor with *shudder* 1024x600 LCDs.  i think we have enough
> sense, collectively, to appreciate that skimping on the screen is bad?
> thus a minimum can be set of 1280x768.
>
>  i'd be inclined to go for adapting a straightforward preexisting 12in
> x86 "no-brand" laptop.  12in with a 1280x768 (or 1280x800) LCD is the
> right sort of size.  keep the battery the same, so that it can still
> be bought off-the-shelf.  still make it possible to take a 2.5in SATA
> drive.

are 1366x768 ~12" harder to find or notably more expensive?



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