On 6/21/19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > (joshua appreciate you're busy with teardown, let's make this one short) > > Mike got back to me, his engineer completed the review of the BOM, and we > managed to work out all of the information that had been lost by Mike's > long standing manager quitting with no notice. > > The BOM still had components in it from the RTC, Ethernet and ONFI NAND, > and we had had to change 10uF 0805 to a pair of 0603 4.7uF - all 12 or so > of them - when there was that shortage caused by Apple, last year. > > All of this was *supposed* to be documented as part of the pre-production > runs that cost USD 2500 a shot, so that the longer runs are far less risky > because a short trial run is supposed to prepare the engineers for the > longer one. We cannot keep doing that, it takes 2 to three months each > time, so we have to take the risk and go straight to QTY 100. > > This is just how it is. > > Patience is required. Success happens by solving each unknown and > unknowable issue that comes up. However, it would be appreciated if people > would accept that this is not something that cannot be predicted, neither > what might happen next nor how long it will take. Continuously asking > "when is shipping going to happen" the answer is, always and will always > be: until we have actual finished product ready to put into the hands of > the shipping agents, we don't know and we can't know. It really is as > simple as that. > > L. > > > > > -- > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
good to know, better a good product that's a bit late than a rushed dud. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk