ok, just an update for people: adam's now in china and is staying there until saturday: communication will be sporadic skype from internet cafes and last resort phone calls. he's got enough money to put down the 50% deposit, which he shouuuld have done by now: this helps the factory to go out and pay cash for the LCD panels :)
in talking to adam last night, we had 15 already and he was just going to go "heck i'll get 20 and sell the remaining ones in nepal" so that miiight leave enough room for the 3 or more people already and anyone else who contact us late to get one too. we've had 6 requests for 512mb RAM so we'll pass that on to the factory, see if they can either do that or if there's an SODIMM socket. let's hope it's an SODIMM, cos then people can buy their own memory upgrades. as this is a completely new system for the factory, it's a bit of a learning curve for everyone: i don't think they were expecting geeks to be interested, which is the whole damn point! i'm a bit annoyed by the general thinking that "ARM != PC quality" so this is kinda an important message to get across to factories: _yes_ people want standard laptops and netbooks, with loads of RAM etc. just with an ARM CPU, damnit! :) i have to say that i've been a bit caught by surprise at the interest, so thank you to everyone who's still with us, even if it's a bit chaotic. i'll keep people posted as i hear from adam, who is probably wandering around the markets now, looking for $2 webcams, dirt-cheap USB GPS dongles and other dreadful junk :) l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
