Re: [LUG] Oh Woe is me - Laptop recommendations time please

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
> > ----Original
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> > From: zleap@xxxxxxxxx
> > Date: 19/10/2011 10:46
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> > 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
> >
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