Comments on: Hypothetical Laptop notes

By: Gordon P. Hemsley

Gordon P. Hemsley — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:38:11 +0000

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2394

By: jon

jon — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:21:12 +0000

Trackpoint.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:29:21 +0000

- a decent sound chip
- at least 4 usb ports, spaced sanely
- ideally, support for the “extra power” usb “standard” that apple uses; their USB ports can (on some models) put out up to 2100mA at 5v, which is rather more than the 500mA stock USB can put out — this is important when charging things like phones
- a good keyboard with full-sized keys and a sane layout
- personally, I’d carry around a 5cm thick laptop if it got me a proper full-throw mechanical keyboard

By: gnomon

gnomon — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:39:42 +0000

Two SD[HX]C card slots, either or both of which can be set as a boot device. (recovering a potentially compromised device is so much less stressful when you can start with a boot from a removable device that features a hardware write protect toggle)

Two GigE ethernet ports, ideally one of which can light up the charge circuit with PoE.

I would stay away from Tegra until such time as NVidia actually delivers something like their promise of OSS Linux drivers, since they have a history of dissembling and flat-out lying about that kind of thing.

By: Mike Hoye

Mike Hoye — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:37:06 +0000

True, true.

By: kev

kev — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:23:46 +0000

drivers that actually support everything properly.