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> "Interestingly enough, someone in the audience also asked about the price point. Cross replied that the comments break down into two distinct camps: FOSS peop
by keithpeter 12y ago
> "Interestingly enough, someone in the audience also asked about the price point. Cross replied that the comments break down into two distinct camps: FOSS people say "wow that's an expensive laptop" but FPGA users say "wow that's so cheap for a development kit!" "
Above from the comments on the LWN article. So if you got into FPGA development, this would become a cheap option!
I quite like the idea of the 'transportable desktop' (the one up from the bare board without the battery board/battery and keyboard &c). I hope they carry that on to the second generation.
- jacquesm 12y agoThat's mostly a matter of packaging, you could just get the laptop, make a nice case to suit your requirements and call it a day.
- rjsw 12y agoIt still looks an expensive FPGA development kit to me. A Parallella board is a cheap FPGA development kit. One think I can't tell is whether the FPGA on the Novena can bus-master back to the main CPU. I'm sure somebody could spin a Mini PCI/PCI Express Mini Card with an FPGA easily enough that would let you do interesting stuff in a laptop.