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| + | Balthazar laptop as a box consisting of: mainboard + all the perifery needed that make up a | ||
| + | complete laptop: display, audio, keyboard, mousepad, wireless, usb, hdmi... and additionally: a | ||
| + | buffered gpio (general purpose in/out) connector (not that laptop usually needs it...). | ||
| + | The technology used benefits from the current rapid mobile platform development – as do all open- | ||
| + | source single-board computers: Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi 4 – and a bit more advanced Firefly- | ||
| + | RK3399. They all use SOC (system on chip) as the miniaturized combination of cpu/gpu/etc. The | ||
| + | laptop should however be a pushed-up version of these single board computers - but still a single | ||
| + | board computer. | ||
| + | One format of recent computers is also the mini-pc. They are usually based on intel or amd laptop | ||
| + | computer processors. LattePanda seems to be on the side of single-board-computers but uses Intel | ||
| + | processors. Prices are also pushed up. | ||
| + | The interchangeable module should basically be the board itself, while the stable part should be the | ||
| + | skeleton: a specifically designed housing with display, keyboard, audio, mousepad, power supply. | ||
| + | To upgrade – one buys a new board and inserts it in the place of the old board. | ||
Revision as of 08:04, 27 January 2020
Schematics
We have an early Balthazar system scheme as a block diagram upon which we develop and prototype separate boards to an interchangable compliance.
Balthazar laptop as a box consisting of: mainboard + all the perifery needed that make up a complete laptop: display, audio, keyboard, mousepad, wireless, usb, hdmi... and additionally: a buffered gpio (general purpose in/out) connector (not that laptop usually needs it...). The technology used benefits from the current rapid mobile platform development – as do all open- source single-board computers: Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi 4 – and a bit more advanced Firefly- RK3399. They all use SOC (system on chip) as the miniaturized combination of cpu/gpu/etc. The laptop should however be a pushed-up version of these single board computers - but still a single board computer. One format of recent computers is also the mini-pc. They are usually based on intel or amd laptop computer processors. LattePanda seems to be on the side of single-board-computers but uses Intel processors. Prices are also pushed up. The interchangeable module should basically be the board itself, while the stable part should be the skeleton: a specifically designed housing with display, keyboard, audio, mousepad, power supply. To upgrade – one buys a new board and inserts it in the place of the old board.
