ARTICLE - Bunny Huang (Chumby and such) building open source laptop

David Rysdam david at rysdam.org
Fri Dec 21 20:50:22 EST 2012


On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:45:25 -0500, "Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at 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).


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