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Yes, the fundraising campaign is for engineering work for a PPC motherboard for an existing laptop chassis. I would also prefer sending them money in exchange

Yes, the fundraising campaign is for engineering work for a PPC motherboard for an existing laptop chassis. I would also prefer sending them money in exchange for a physical product, but they're not at that point yet. They're asking for €24,000 which honestly seems a little low to cover the engineering work for an almost completely new laptop MB.

kop316 7y ago
The only thing with that is usually 1 PCB is 24,000, but then 10 PCBs are 25,000 (i.e. making more is a lot cheaper than the first). If they have an existing chassis, than I would assume actually delivering a laptop isn't that difficult (famous last words, I understand).
- katmannthree 7y ago
  >If they have an existing chassis, than I would assume actually delivering a laptop isn't that difficult (famous last words, I understand). From what I can tell there are three distinct groups involved: 1) Slimbook -- an existing small laptop vendor. I'm not sure if they have an active engineering role with their amd64 motherboards or if they're more of an integrator, but I believe ~~they do the engineering for their laptop chassis (unlike some other linux laptop "manufacturers" who sell rebranded Clevo notebooks)~~. Edit: It appears that the Slimbook laptops are likely also rebranded Clevo PCs. That's pretty disappointing. 2) ACube Systems -- an existing PowerPC board designer / vendor, whose engineers will do the actual work under contract(?) from Power Progress Community. 3) Power Progress Community -- PowerPC enthusiasts, the group soliciting donations, and writing the specs. It seems they plan to function as an integrator using Slimbook chassis and Acube Systems motherboards. All that is to say that I don't think the engineers working on the PPC board are the same ones who did the amd64 one.

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Yes, the fundraising campaign is for engineering work for a PPC motherboard for an existing laptop chassis. I would also prefer sending them money in exchange

by katmannthree 7y ago

kop316 7y ago
The only thing with that is usually 1 PCB is 24,000, but then 10 PCBs are 25,000 (i.e. making more is a lot cheaper than the first). If they have an existing chassis, than I would assume actually delivering a laptop isn't that difficult (famous last words, I understand).
- katmannthree 7y ago
  >If they have an existing chassis, than I would assume actually delivering a laptop isn't that difficult (famous last words, I understand). From what I can tell there are three distinct groups involved: 1) Slimbook -- an existing small laptop vendor. I'm not sure if they have an active engineering role with their amd64 motherboards or if they're more of an integrator, but I believe ~~they do the engineering for their laptop chassis (unlike some other linux laptop "manufacturers" who sell rebranded Clevo notebooks)~~. Edit: It appears that the Slimbook laptops are likely also rebranded Clevo PCs. That's pretty disappointing. 2) ACube Systems -- an existing PowerPC board designer / vendor, whose engineers will do the actual work under contract(?) from Power Progress Community. 3) Power Progress Community -- PowerPC enthusiasts, the group soliciting donations, and writing the specs. It seems they plan to function as an integrator using Slimbook chassis and Acube Systems motherboards. All that is to say that I don't think the engineers working on the PPC board are the same ones who did the amd64 one.