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On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, raymond.knowles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Non Recurring Engineering Cost.
What is? Oh, I see. Top-posted you did.Not only that, but your email client really screws up list postings. Can't you make it a bit wider or turn on flowed-text?
Gordon
Ray.----OriginalMessage----From: zleap@xxxxxxxxx Date: 19/10/2011 10:46To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subj: Re: [LUG] Oh Woe is me -Laptop recommendations time pleaseOn 19/10/11 11:34,Gordon Henderson wrote:On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, tom wrote:On 19/10/11 09:23, Kai Hendry wrote:ThinkpadX220 is going for 800GBP on the UK Lenovo site. Excellentmachine.alas well out of my price range -and only 1/2 the power of my 1/4price desktop.Does anyone have a few 10's of millions to develop a laptopco-processor plugin? If raspberrypi can be donefor Â25 then for acouple of hundred it should bepossible to stick a 4*( 2Ghz core +1gbB) into alaptop for linux users.You can get dual-core laptopsfor under Â400. Mother in law is justabout to get one -probably an Acer 5733z - which comes with 6GB ofRAM adual-core Pentium something (2GHz?) and a claimed battery lifeof 3.5 hours... It will run Win7 and I'm not evengoing to think aboutputting Linux on it (actually itwill make me happy to never have totouch it, however)Raspberry Pi is being done cheaply because thedesigner is veryprobably writing off the NRE. Considerthat they've been working on itfor over a year - tryadding in the equivalent salary of 2 (?) peopleworkingon something for that long, probably a little more than 8hours a day at times, etc. That Â25 just represents thecost of thehardware...What does NRE mean?Andif you want an intersting co-processor, look at the ParallaxPropeller chip :) Gordon-- -- http://www.zleap.net> Join the revolution, switch toUbuntu http://www.ubuntu.com>-- The Mailing List forthe Devon & Cornwall LUGhttp://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
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