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/
Re: ARTICLE - Bunny Huang (Chumby and such) building open source laptop
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:47:37 -0500, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net 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/
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 20:45:25 -0500, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net 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/
