On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me wrote:
been meaning to say, it looks awesome luke, the pics a few posts ago and a cool smooth look. in the video the purple colour looks more like a funky purple than in the pics, I’m quite fond of a deep funky purple :).
yeah me too, i like bright eye-burning colours for some reason. i have a colour-coordinated tennis outfit that includes a lime-green shirt, bright red shorts, blue racket used by nikolai davydenko (no, really, it really *was* his racket - custom-made), with an orange damper, bright neon-yellow tennis shoes and mis-matching socks.
i'm thinking of providing people with the option of 3d-printed "random coloured parts", as well as one that's entirely clear ABS. i think it'd be utterly cool to be able to see all the parts inside a laptop.
oh with the keyboard will it be that layout or will/can it be one with a fn key next to the arow keys so you can, using one hand browser page up/down, home/end/ up,down,left,right. like on my asus 1011px keyboard. just ask for a pic if you would like one?
is it possible to get rid of the m$ logo for the super key on the keyboard on the final production units? swap it or have it as a plain,blank key or one like it with the round cycle but without the logo? maybe include a robust sticker(s) for the user to put on to there liking?
i picked the keyboard based on its availability, and the casework has to be hard-custom-made to match it *and* then you have to arrange the PCB *specifically* to match the output connector in *exactly* the right place for that absolute specific make and model of keyboard.
later on it will be possible to custom-design keys by asking the keyboard manufacturer to make something else, but that requires a MOQ of 50,000 units and takes a long time to arrange and source.
the keyboard i picked because it is very common in a number of OEM laptops, and a number of Packard Bell laptops as well. so there is no danger of it going end-of-line for a good while yet.
l.
thank you muchly for all your hard work.
looking forward to having one :D
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