It May Soon Be Possible To Build A Do-It-Yourself 64-Bit ARM Laptop

[phoronix]

Phoronix: It May Soon Be Possible To Build A Do-It-Yourself 64-Bit ARM Laptop

Olimex Ltd is hoping to make it possible to sell a Do-It-Yourself laptop powered by a 64-bit ARM SoC...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Allwinner-BYO-Laptop

[soulsource]

Allwinner... Somewhere I already read that name. Maybe it was something regarding GPL violations?

[rrohbeck]

Allwinner... Somewhere I already read that name. Maybe it was something regarding GPL violations?

And Mali GPUs without SW support.

[duby229]

I think 5 bucks just goes to prove slave labor in China.

[IsacDaavid]

A 64-bit Novena with less eccentric form factor and hardware. Can't be bad.

Also, that Super key with the Windows logo...

[Drago]

I think 5 bucks just goes to prove slave labor in China.

I partly agree with you, but I think especially CPU manifacturing is done mostly with robots ( due to precision, and clean room environment ), and Olimex buy in thousands.

[edmon]

I partly agree with you, but I think especially CPU manifacturing is done mostly with robots ( due to precision, and clean room environment ), and Olimex buy in thousands.

just read about Foxconn and what cost to chinese ppl to produce stupid iSomething ....

[sarfarazahmad]

i want something similar but with ability to customize with amd's new processors, SSDs and at least 16Gigs of ram still being on a budget

[Awesomeness]

From the comment section in their (ugly) blog:
?I guess it would be eventually usable without blobs, except 3D acceleration. I mean 2D would likely work, mainline kernel already supports ?simple framebuffer? thing for most allwinners?

Wow?

[johnp117]

I hope Linus Torvalds is right and it's going to be the year of ARM Laptops.
Dream 2016 Laptop:

• AArch64/ARMv8 SoC: Server-Class 24-48 Cores or based on Tegra X1 or some Qualcomm chip
• 16GB ECC LPDDR4
• NVMe SSD (slideshare)
• (Dell) 4k Touch InfinityEdge Display (able to pack ~17" screen in a typical 15" sized notebook)
• Keyboard with NumPad and TrackPoint
• Running coreboot + mainline kernel
• (personally: Plasma/KWin on Wayland)

Anyone else interested in something like this?