I saw this link today and thought to myself that it looked awfully familiar....
http://liliputing.com/2016/09/closer-look-kangaroo-notebook-modular-pc-syste...
While I am hoping their pilot program is successful (because modular and upgradeable laptops is a great idea), this whole implementation appears to be proprietary from top to bottom and without any concern for libre usage.
I suppose the other positive aspect to this (assuming the product takes off for them) is that there will a larger consumer base out there that is familiar with this sort of modular device paradigm. Perhaps at that point, the concept of the EOMA68 standard won't be such a stretch of the imagination for some people.
Anyhow, it was an interesting read.
There's also the first Motorola Atrix, which is kinda a similar idea but with a smartphone base instead of a PC base, if you know what I mean. (The second Atrix did not carry forward the dock concepts of the first one, unfortunately.) It's *also* proprietary as ****, of course... but I personally think it's pretty cool despite that. No offense or disrespect meant, Luke, but I rather suspect that smartphone computing is going to be a major part of the future -- libre, 'open', or proprietary.
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
I rather suspect that smartphone computing is going to be a major part of the future -- libre, 'open', or proprietary.
I think this campaign agrees with you $BIGTIME:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook-turn-your-smart...
Love their 1080p display option...
I like the idea, but they didn't go far enough, I'd love to have an additional HDMI (and DP, and VGA) in for the display, added usb based (u)SD/TF card reader, more USB ports, I.e. a full featured everything-you-may-need-but-the-CPU. That would have a very long lifespan for me...
They got 3 million dollars ... wow.
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Hello,
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
I rather suspect that smartphone computing is going to be a major part of the future -- libre, 'open', or proprietary.
I think this campaign agrees with you $BIGTIME:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook-turn-your-smart...
Love their 1080p display option...
I like the idea, but they didn't go far enough, I'd love to have an additional HDMI (and DP, and VGA) in for the display, added usb based (u)SD/TF card reader, more USB ports, I.e. a full featured everything-you-may-need-but-the-CPU. That would have a very long lifespan for me...
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Muhammed Adel Afzal adel@ncf.ca wrote:
They got 3 million dollars ... wow.
yeah. started by a GOOGLE engineer who has access to GOOGLE engineering mailing lists and lots of friends at GOOGLE the project hit its funding goal within a couple of hours.
it basically uses a DisplayLink adaptor. DisplayLink adaptors actually contain a full CPU with a built-in GPU and hardware accelerated video decode engines, and they require some DDR RAM to hold the framebuffers and so on. it's a bit like a hardware-accelerated version of doing X11 (or a less sophisticated version of RDesktop) over USB instead of over a network.
it would be very interesting to emulate a DisplayLink adapter using a USB-OTG port set up in "client" mode. the drivers are availalbe for linux: they have been for some time. that way it would be possible to run a full-blown OS.... oh that happened to turn into a "display".
l.
I remember reading somewhere that the eoma laptop battery will be different from usual laptop batteries. Magnesium instead of Lithium ... or something like that. And that it has different traits.
What kind of battery does the eoma laptop have? What's the right way to take care of it? Is it good or bad to deplete the battery to close to 0%, and then charge it to 100%?
Adel
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Muhammed Adel Afzal adel@ncf.ca wrote:
I remember reading somewhere that the eoma laptop battery will be different from usual laptop batteries. Magnesium instead of Lithium ... or something like that. And that it has different traits.
Lithium Ion, specific chemistry: NiCoMn.
What kind of battery does the eoma laptop have?
an e-bike battery. P/N EV GPNCM 62135160 10Ah - see http://hands.com/~lkcl/eoma/laptop_15in
What's the right way to take care of it? Is it good or bad to deplete the battery to close to 0%, and then charge it to 100%?
i have no idea. we'll find out soon enough.
l.
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Mike Leimon leimon@gmail.com wrote:
I saw this link today and thought to myself that it looked awfully familiar....
oooo faaascinating. huh. why hasn't that come up before? it's been around for quite a while.
http://liliputing.com/2016/09/closer-look-kangaroo-notebook-modular-pc-syste...
While I am hoping their pilot program is successful (because modular and upgradeable laptops is a great idea), this whole implementation appears to be proprietary from top to bottom and without any concern for libre usage.
yeah i noted that, too. nothing on the infocus web site suggests that they intend to make a committment to open this up, at all.
I suppose the other positive aspect to this (assuming the product takes off for them) is that there will a larger consumer base out there that is familiar with this sort of modular device paradigm. Perhaps at that point, the concept of the EOMA68 standard won't be such a stretch of the imagination for some people.
hooraaay!
Anyhow, it was an interesting read.
yeah. good find, mike.
l.
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