Haven't had time to read the feature discussions in the archives
yet, so I'll keep this brief.
Seems like there will have to be some optional features. Your
must-have feature is my power-wasting bloat.
The feature that would get me to pay more than $150 is a
fixed-frequency monitor option. Yes, brand-new fixed-frequency monitor
designs are just now hitting the market; see Apple's snazzy new wide-format
flat displays. Since you can't get a display at all on a fixed-frequency
monitor until the board is field-configured, and you can't install any
software until you get a display, it logically follows that a true
fixed-frequency board must provide a way to set its power-up mode without
any help from the host computer. I'd go for providing a PS2 keyboard jack
driving a $2 microcontroller with minimal embedded ROM firmware, and let the
user type in an XFree86-style modeline blind. A few DIPswitches to select
between user modes and default factory modes, and write-protect the user
modes, and there you are.
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