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posted by on Saturday February 04 2017, @06:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can-change-more-than-the-battery dept.

Olimex just announced the avaliability of their TERES I DIY laptop. The name is from king of ancient times that ruled in the area of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Return of the netbook? At least once the products stop being out of stock.

This kit lets you assemble a laptop with quad core Allwinner A64 (64 bit ARM Cortex A53 cores), 1GB RAM, 11.6" inch screen 1366 x 768, 4GB eMMC, WiFi & BT, camera, 7000 mAh battery in just under a Kg. Avaliable in black or white, with US keyboard showing a nice Tux. In the assembly instructions you can see two USB ports, HDMI, 3.5 headphone jack, microSD slot, mic and side speakers. Multiple modular cards to update or fix as needed. No fans. Current price 225 EUR incl VAT.

AC opinion: the RAM is soldered and small for modern times, but it could become a plataform upon which to improve without having to throw away everything. Olimex already lists some ideas for future add ons, like FPGA based Logic Analyzer, in the instructions. All spare parts are listed already in shop, some with PCB files (Open Source Hardware, developed with KiCAD) for those wanting to do custom versions.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Pino P on Sunday February 05 2017, @01:01AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Sunday February 05 2017, @01:01AM (#462981) Journal

    People still need PC until cellular ISPs stop charging several USD per GB of data transfer allowance.

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  • (Score: 1) by Frost on Sunday February 05 2017, @03:24PM

    by Frost (3313) on Sunday February 05 2017, @03:24PM (#463124)

    wat

    PC has how much data transfer allowance?

    • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday February 06 2017, @02:41PM

      by Pino P (4721) on Monday February 06 2017, @02:41PM (#463430) Journal

      A PC or set thereof connected to wired home Internet has 1000 GB per month (source: Comcast). A PC connected to cellular or satellite Internet has closer to 10 GB/mo. But applications running on a PC have historically had better offline support than Web applications or applications for mobile phones, causing your use of the application to not use your Internet data transfer allowance at all.