Re: ARTICLE - Bunny Huang (Chumby and such) building open source laptop
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:45:25 -0500, "Michael ODonnell" wrote: > > > >> The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop for Huang, > >> it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this > >> kind and it would be priced to reflect that. > > > >It seems like there's room in the laptop market between "cheap" > >and "artisanal". > > Yah, I'm happy to enourage his efforts but if he ends up with > what amounts to just another obscure, custom design I sure > don't want to pay boutique prices for it. Chicken and egg? > > The dream, of course, is to somehow end up with open "standards" > for laptop/fondleslab/tablet paraphenalia (power supplies, cases, > connectors, peripherals, etc) as we have for desktop boxes... I guess with an known-working, Big Name, open design, someone can come along and put it into production at various price points (i.e. dump the raspberry pi headers, the second ethernet, etc). ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: ARTICLE - Bunny Huang (Chumby and such) building open source laptop
>> The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop for Huang, >> it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this >> kind and it would be priced to reflect that. > >It seems like there's room in the laptop market between "cheap" >and "artisanal". Yah, I'm happy to enourage his efforts but if he ends up with what amounts to just another obscure, custom design I sure don't want to pay boutique prices for it. Chicken and egg? The dream, of course, is to somehow end up with open "standards" for laptop/fondleslab/tablet paraphenalia (power supplies, cases, connectors, peripherals, etc) as we have for desktop boxes... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: ARTICLE - Bunny Huang (Chumby and such) building open source laptop
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:47:37 -0500, "Michael ODonnell" wrote: > Traffic has been light here for some time - hope y'all are well. > Season's greetings, etc... > > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chumby-developer-building-open-source-laptop-1771223.html The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop – for Huang, it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this kind and it would be priced to reflect that. It seems like there's room in the laptop market between "cheap" and "artisanal". ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
ARTICLE - Bunny Huang (Chumby and such) building open source laptop
Traffic has been light here for some time - hope y'all are well. Season's greetings, etc... http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chumby-developer-building-open-source-laptop-1771223.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
