<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/2 Matt Sealey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@genesi-usa.com">matt@genesi-usa.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Gordan Bobic <<a href="mailto:gordan@bobich.net">gordan@bobich.net</a>> wrote:<br></div>
This is exactly where you will get if you're trying to massage the<br>
Tegra2, MX53, OMAP4 into a high end laptop; it will not meet your<br>
expectations. They are not designed for those environments. Tegra and<br>
OMAP4 are phone/tablet chips almost entirely focused on Android. MX53<br>
is for in-flight entertainment, Ford Sync, handheld media tablets,<br>
that kind of thing. Remember when you think about speeds on devices,<br>
they are always listed as maximums. Yes, SATA-II is 3Gbit/s (actually<br>
about 2.4Gbit after you get past the 10-8 encoding) but does a device<br>
need to run at that? Not at all. USB 480Mbit/s? Nope.<br>
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You can't design a system, keep it cheap and make it a volume seller<br>
by just picking the chips with the biggest numbers.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The trick is, pick one component and select all other components as cheap as possible, but still not bottlenecking the whole system. I got rather small experience in System design, but if you intend to do so, get some money-monkey keeping an eye on the BOM and timeline.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just my 2 cents.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Bernhard Schuster</div></div>