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Non Recurring Engineering Cost. Ray. >----Original Message---- >From: zleap@xxxxxxxxx >Date: 19/10/2011 10:46 >To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subj: Re: [LUG] Oh Woe is me - Laptop recommendations time please > >On 19/10/11 11:34, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, tom wrote: >> >>> On 19/10/11 09:23, Kai Hendry wrote: >>>> Thinkpad X220 is going for 800GBP on the UK Lenovo site. Excellent >>>> machine. >>>> >>> alas well out of my price range - and only 1/2 the power of my 1/4 >>> price desktop. >>> Does anyone have a few 10's of millions to develop a laptop >>> co-processor plugin? If raspberrypi can be done for Â25 then for a >>> couple of hundred it should be possible to stick a 4*( 2Ghz core + >>> 1gbB) into a laptop for linux users. >> >> You can get dual-core laptops for under Â400. Mother in law is just >> about to get one - probably an Acer 5733z - which comes with 6GB of >> RAM a dual-core Pentium something (2GHz?) and a claimed battery life >> of 3.5 hours... It will run Win7 and I'm not even going to think about >> putting Linux on it (actually it will make me happy to never have to >> touch it, however) >> >> Raspberry Pi is being done cheaply because the designer is very >> probably writing off the NRE. Consider that they've been working on it >> for over a year - try adding in the equivalent salary of 2 (?) people >> working on something for that long, probably a little more than 8 >> hours a day at times, etc. That Â25 just represents the cost of the >> hardware... >> > >What does NRE mean? >> And if you want an intersting co-processor, look at the Parallax >> Propeller chip :) >> >> Gordon > > >-- > >-- >http://www.zleap.net> >Join the revolution, switch to Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com> > >-- >The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list>FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq