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On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Wookey wookey@wookware.org wrote:
+++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2016-02-02 20:10 +0000]:
Thing is, that project is stalled because a) Andy is working on both another project and deisgning/building a new house and b) they have failed to get AMD to commit to chip supply. So currently your design is looking a lot more like it might actually happen than theirs.
*sigh* yeahh, it's quite likely that AMD hasn't actually got *anyone* who's committed to it...
Softiron is selling hardware based on the AMD seattle,
ok great!
yeah you too - it's been a bit weird focussing so heavily on this stuff for such a long time.
1.1kg - it's peanuts. i'm kinda confused as to why 15.6in laptops are 2.3kg and above.
More performance, bigger batteries, fans, heatsinks, ABS cases, metal frame in decent ones (the PItop shows how much heavier an ABS injection-moulded case is - A brick in comparison). Yours feels too light to be very robust, but I guess we'll see. The lightness helps itself to some degree, in the way of insects being unaffected by falls.
i kinda intuitively / subconsciously must have thought of that, i did know of the concept of "mass decompounding" as applied to cars. the hinge part is my main concern - but i guess that one part could always be either cast in aluminium (look up julia longtin's work - phil mentioned her to me a while back) or just done in either the high-temperature ABS from proto-pasta or perhaps the 300C polycarbonate used for plastic bottles... lots of experimenting, plenty of time.
I'm used to a solid lenovo X-series...
It was nice :-) I feel inspired to update my eoma card and print some parts...
awesome. well, the rev 1.1 card that you have should work with a bit of modification - there's a couple of jumper leads you need to run, i've modded one here - you'll only be able to run the LCD at 100% brightness unless you compile up a software-PCM linux kernel module and do a few other tricks.... just running 3.3v to the pin that's now allocated as "PWM0" is the easiest temporary solution.
I had a quick look but failed to find details of the screen, keyboard, boards and 3D parts online, other than scattered through many mailing list-messages. Never mind info like the above. Is there a page that actually has the info someone keen would need to get started?
eek - sorry :) i usually maintain a page that has them but haven't put it together yet - give me a mo and it'll be at http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/
the boards i want to do another run in the next few weeks, wookey, so if you'd like to buy some you'd be most welcome. i don't want to get too many done in case they need modifications. they're only single-sided 2-layer 1.5mm thick so are "bog standard" i.e. dirt cheap. i think this time i'll get them made up rather than do the component assembly myself.
but, it would only be needed for a few months: i need to do another production run (rev 2.5) of the EOMA68-A20 PCB so there are more on the way. ethernet is going, so you need to be prepared for that, and have a USB-ETH dongle kicking around.
Boo. But yes OK, that's do-able.
(i put USB 3.1 which is 10gbit/sec in place instead - 8 wires for only GbE or 8 wires for a general-purpose 10gbit/sec bus.... no contest)
What I really want is either an A64 EOMA68 board, or a baseboard that'll take the pine64...(as discussed, subject to heat limits). Still, that's all 'just hardware' (ha ha).
yeh the EOMA68-A64 is on the cards.... i even have a pine64 on order so i can check GPL compliance... *but* i just learned from someone at fosdem2016 that f*****g allwinner have done it *again* - this time something related to DDR3 RAM initialisation. i can't recall the exact details (was a bit of a mad rush) but i am *not* going to waste my time any more on pursuing GPL violations.
so if someone can confirm whether this is true or not, i'll re-prioritise the allwinner A64 board back to the top of the TODO list.
l.