On 11/10/17 15:39, [email protected] wrote: > > Instead raptor suggest a micro atx > mainboard. I would prefer a notebook mainboard enabling people to make > their own portable or notebook solutions. >
I suspect/take a guess that part of the problem is power consumption. Which means a lot of cooling and for laptops that means not a generic off the shelf heatsinks/cooling systems but custom designed and made cooling system, i guess. Along with all the addition bits and complications in making a notebook. After watching luke making a eoma68 laptop, it is a lot of work. When if you want portable you probably want something lower power with longer batt life. Note that eoma68 has a power budget of 5W for the computer card wheres i guess (idk) the talos will be double digit power needs. A ATX board pops into existing PCs. so they just have to do the basic stuff (the big power supply brick, for example. is already done for them, laptop would mean diy power supply.) and i guess less trouble fitting it all in the space of the atx pcb. It’s a struggle to do anything. The challenge is to make something at all. Anyway heres an existing powerpc laptop project: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ It was mentioned/talked about on the eoma68/rhombus-tech/arm-netbook mailing list: http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2017-September/014695.html
