alt Hacker NewsThis is a small shop. Given complexity I'd say the price is a steal. You certainly couldn't make it at that price in the West. Probably 2-10 times more expensive.
This is a small shop. Given complexity I'd say the price is a steal. You certainly couldn't make it at that price in the West. Probably 2-10 times more expensive.
Would it help small shops if there were open schematics for laptop motherboards, like OpenCompute does for servers? Coreboot and other open firmware (e.g. EC2) could then target that "open" motherboard, even if the shipped board designs had 10% non-open customization for business differentiation.