On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > I think trying to cut down an ATX board to notebook size would be harder > > (or at least as hard) as designing your own board. In fact, this might > > not be too hard (if you have some good EE guys) and a good deal of > > knowledge. Be manage to make a mobo so... I think using the IBM stuff > > > as a referance and doing a new board might be easier. But I'm no EE guy > > myself. > > I'm looking at it as I'm looking at redesigning onboard computers for > cars. (Very very ambitious task, let me tell you. Did you know you only > have about a cubic foot, if that, of room for the onboard computer in a > '95 Escort hatchback?!) Basically, I believe it'd simply be a matter of > different heat dissipation methods, and rearranging/splitting up the > board into sepearte parts, with basic interconnects. (Just reroute > traces to Molex connectors or something.) Sorta like PeeCee (*UGH!*) > laptops, only cooler. I figure if we can get it to fit in a PC laptop > case, all the better. 14.1" active matrix screens own you. (As opposed > to the IBM ThinkPad 860 I have now, which is about as 'owning' as > Unixware. Eww.)
Ahh. So you have some experiance here then.. :) > Another possibility I thought of is semi-emulating the ThinkPad 860. > There's 4.3G SCSI *laptop* HDDs now, apparently. And we all know SCSI > beats IDE any day. Sooo.. well.. you know where I'm going. (The ThinkPad > 860 (603/166) has a 2x SCSI2 CD-ROM and a 2.5G SCSI2 HDD.) Well, I guess besides cost (onboard scsi might run thigns up a wee bit more), it's a gread idea. And since this is limtied run anyhow, cost will suck regardless. I'd be interested tho (as would many others i'm sure) once you have some price quotes (and #s for bigger orders). --- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
