Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Grahame Kelly
O sorry - I forgot to say I am in Australia, so Freight & Tax (especially) for me are important as customs take great interest in such items for some unknown reason here in Oz. Cheers Grahame On 31/01/2010, at 6:25 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Bria

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Grahame Kelly
Add me in too! I use ARM all the time for embedded projects. Cheers Grahame On 31/01/2010, at 6:25 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Brian Platt wrote: >> I like the sound this and would be interested in getting one, > > cool. that makes 6. > >> wou

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 2010-01-30 21:23:37, schrieb Martin Guy: > > i just wish these manufacturers would get their act together and > > produce 9in and 10in ARM netbooks. there seems to be some sort of > > mis-match (of their own expectations) that a 600 or 700mhz ARM CPU > > somehow wouldn't be "good e

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Luke, Am 2010-01-30 15:00:17, schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > i just wish these manufacturers would get their act together and > produce 9in and 10in ARM netbooks. there seems to be some sort of > mis-match (of their own expectations) that a 600 or 700mhz ARM CPU > somehow wouldn't

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Martin Guy
> i just wish these manufacturers would get their act together and > produce 9in and 10in ARM netbooks. there seems to be some sort of > mis-match (of their own expectations) that a 600 or 700mhz ARM CPU > somehow wouldn't be "good enough" to run a 1024x600 or 1280x800 LCD, It's not a CPU pe

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread John Winters
Brian Platt wrote: I like the sound this and would be interested in getting one, would it be available in the UK? The mention of VAT made me assume that the original proposal was not aimed at left-ponders. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Brian Platt wrote: > I like the sound this and would be interested in getting one, cool. that makes 6. > would it be available in the UK? that's the plan. although adam's the one who will be buying them from the distributor (and he's in hong kong), anyone no

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Brian Platt
I like the sound this and would be interested in getting one, would it be available in the UK? Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Frans Pop wrote: >> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> also, just so you know: i'll be buying at least one of these to give

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> also, just so you know: i'll be buying at least one of these to give >> to anyone willing to port debian onto it (they're that cheap, duh). >> it already has some sort of random linux distro on it but it wou

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > also, just so you know: i'll be buying at least one of these to give > to anyone willing to port debian onto it (they're that cheap, duh). > it already has some sort of random linux distro on it but it would be > nice to have it done as a "proper" debian HOWTO

anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i have a friend who is buying some ARM 7in netbooks that are rumoured to be so all-the-rage, we're kinda fed up with all the hype and want to see if these manufacturers actually deliver. so i'm making the assumption that people on debian-arm might be interested, and so i wanted to let you know, in