On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Chadvellacott chadvellacott@sasktel.net wrote:
I noticed that the campaign's main page on "Crowd Supply", says "Only 1.1 kg weight" for the lap-top.
yes. no metal except that of the LCD (which i recall was 400g). no SSD, no HDD, no fans, no heatsinks (except the metal of the keyboard is in direct contact with the metal of the CPU Card case). it's a good illustration of the "mass decompounding" effect, a phrase first used in the vehicle industry.
And how wide is the lap-top planned to be (from the left edge of the case, to the right edge, across the key-board)?
you can check for yourself by downloading the GPLv3-licensed 3D CAD source code. https://www.youmagine.com/designs/libre-hardware-licensed-parametric-laptop-...
(I imagine that 15.6 inches is for the screen itself rather than the whole case, and is a diagonal measurement.)
the LCD is listed on the rhombus-tech page, from which the datasheet may be sourced, and there is approximately 2mm left and right, about 10mm top, about.... 25mm at the bottom.
that gives the overall dimensions.
l.