On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Louis Pearson desttinghimgame@gmail.com wrote:

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:

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Neither ARM nor netbook, strictly speaking, but we've veered off topic before, so gee why not...

https://hackaday.com/2018/03/12/new-guts-make-old-thinkpads-new/

Looks vaguely relevant.

Those are some awesome machines. r/thinkpad went nuts on the x62 when it got released.

That is very impressive! I'd rather get the laptop chassis for the eoma68 for that price though.

There are a lot of people who swear by thinkpad keyboards and the lenovo trackpoint. These machines are amazingly built for what they are: the ports fit right into the old holes and the thermals are actually really, really good. Very well designed and if I recall correctly there were some fan noise issues on the early editions which got fixed later on.

A question that popped my mind though: We do know that newer nodes up to finFET give better perf/dollar when used on scale so explaining why a sbc like the rpi is possible today is easy. Has the same happened in pcb fabrication? This is a very high end board that costs 700$ and includes the cpu which retails for several hundred bucks. I'm surprised at the cost at which they made these.