Interestingly enough, another article I saw come up on the right side on that page was about making a Raspberry Pi tablet PC.

http://makezine.com/2014/01/07/how-i-built-a-raspberry-pi-tablet/

Wonder if an offshoot of an open-source laptop Amiga could also be offered as a tablet form-factor machine like that one.

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@billt

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To me, anything that can be fit into a portable chassis, remove heat to keep ti alive, and run on battery power for an acceptable length of time with an acceptable level of performance is just fine for a portable system.

I would hope most people would agree on that.

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@AmigaBlitter

That's probably the best hand-built prototype laptop I've ever seen. Quite awesome, actually.

And the design philosophy is something everyone who has commented in this thread should really learn from. Including me

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@NomadOfNorad

The main problem with tablet is still the user interface.

Both tablet and laptop share the "getting it thin enough to please the critics" problem, obviously. But That can be solved by creative use of "ignoring".

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@olegil

As SAM460EX has LVDS output in mobo, it should not be extremely difficult to use it as base to laptop ?

This was pretty quick sneak, so I may be wrong.

@mlehto

I don't think anyone has ever tested it, and I'm not sure of the pinout.

My board has the connector, but it also has a huge heatsink with fan which I would need to remove somehow.

And since ACube didn't put in any screw holes around the CPU, the heat sink is glued in place.

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@olegil

Heatsink: or taped?

Ok, in pics it is without fan. If it needs fan, it is more difficult to make.

@mlehto

I don't think it NEEDs a fan, but someone screwed one into the heatsink anyway.

Unfortunately I couldn't get USB to work yesterday, so will bring home a simpler keyboard from work today for another go.

Hope Antique didn't sell me a dud.

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

@olegil

Just to make sure noone thinks I got another dead NG Amiga (alongside my BPPC and the protoSE), it booted up into something yesterday. Miikka is helping me through PM

I've been looking at an HP Pavillion ze2000, seems to have about enough space, the interesting thing to resolve is cooling. But there's an awful lot of headroom in there (and not an awful lot of cooling demand), so it should work. It's also got a broken hinge, but that's a local phenomena, not a global one. Seems the hinge got stuck in the open position and the owner(ess ) forced the lid closed. Pop went the weasel.

Now work.

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

I know this is a very old thread, but did not see the need to open up another thread to ask something so simple as to where the stance is in regards to Amiga laptop still being a possibility to coming out this year or the next?

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@Gebrochen

The BSD/Linux PPC laptop project seems to be not giving much status updates. I think that's our best hope at the moment, of anything known.

http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/


If anyone else is working on something, then we don't know about it, so it's hard to comment on their scheduling...

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@Gebrochen

It's not that old. Not in Amiga years.

@Gebrochen

Not this year, or any other for that matter. There is no project, active or passive, that is looking into this.

Lack of hardware is the main issue (amongst a ton of other issues). Now if someone out there changes their mind and decides to port AmigaOS 4.x to PowerPC iBooks and PowerBooks, then maybe we get something in 2016.

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@agami
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There is no project, active or passive, that is looking into this.

I don't think that's true.

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@billt

I think he meant in the context of a specific OS4 laptop or a PPC laptop that had been chosen for porting OS4 to with some WIP.

But the Power Laptop you linked is very interesting. I wonder, in this Intel/x86 dominated world, why? Sure, it would be good for us, if we could grab it with Amiga hands.

But how does a portable computer running PPC Linux make a difference to other peoples lives and give them a choice? I just can't fathom Linux people wanting to run PPC anymore. Or an ARM laptop for that matter, that isn't a pad. I thought people were forced to give up on CPU choice and technical differences when the PC market killed off the CPU wars.