Project talk:DIY Laptop: Difference between revisions

Having looked at the link [http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3265 Novena Laptop] I find that it could be used for the internals, but it seems to complicate things if we want only to design the form factor. I would propose an easy way to start with any of the off the shelf board computers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers list here] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers comparison here]. Because if we want to go for new ways of doing boards we can look for one that will probably have more backing such as the [http://www.parallella.org/board/ parallella project].  

In order to not have conflicts later down the line or if we scavenge an old laptop we could get a cheap netbook with hardware that will work with free kernels such as [http://h-node.org/notebooks/view/fr/12/Aspire-One-ZG5 this one found in H-node] and sell less than 200 pounds. [http://h-node.org h-node.org] is a good place to search for compatible hardware if there is a cheap deal around and you want to make a quick check to see if it will work.