[Arm-netbook] LWN: Hands on with the pi-top

[Paul Boddie]

Hello,

I thought that some of you might be interested in this, at least in the
context of laptop projects, what other people are doing, and the finished
products:

http://lwn.net/Articles/667040/

I guess the Raspberry Pi aspect of it means that people are willing to throw
their money at something that doesn't really seem to be a particularly good
product: tied to the RPi, no speakers or audio outputs (apart from on the RPi
board itself), the usual proprietary software dependencies and promotional
activity, reportedly dodgy keyboard...

Also of interest is that their desktop version recently got funded very
quickly indeed. Again, the same RPi dependencies and constraints apply. I
guess it shows that there's a market for such stuff, even if (or especially
if) you take the RPi cargo culture out of the equation.

Paul

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[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

Post by Paul Boddie
Hello,
I thought that some of you might be interested in this, at least in the
context of laptop projects, what other people are doing, and the finished
http://lwn.net/Articles/667040/

thanks paul

Post by Paul Boddie
I guess the Raspberry Pi aspect of it means that people are willing to throw
their money at something that doesn't really seem to be a particularly good
product: tied to the RPi, no speakers or audio outputs (apart from on the RPi
board itself), the usual proprietary software dependencies and promotional
activity, reportedly dodgy keyboard...

it sounds very much like it's "first generation". that, and they
have gone out early instead of doing a limited run and a slower
ramp-up, put it out there to as many people as wanted it,
problems-and-all, to get more eyes-on for feedback and potential
solutions.

that sounds pretty much exactly like one of the core guidelines of
successful software libre projects - "release early, release often".
let's see if they follow up with the "release often" bit.

Post by Paul Boddie
Also of interest is that their desktop version recently got funded very
quickly indeed. Again, the same RPi dependencies and constraints apply. I
guess it shows that there's a market for such stuff,

very true

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