On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 03:36:41AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > This is a pretty sound idea, imo. If we had a box with speakers, braille > keyboard, basic other IO like RJ45, audio, etc., but could simply swap > in mb from time to time to pick up on enhanced cpu, ram, etc., wouldn't > that be pretty future proof? Yup, but I can only see a nonprofit or an individual creating such an option. No for profit company would go for it. Can you imagine the loss in revenue if in order to upgrade all a user had to do is to replace the mobo on their own? Let's take it further. What if the entire thing including case and hardware could be printed on a 3d printer, and the stl files were freely available? Keep the cost of the entire thing down to $200 maybe $300 per unit. Allow a bit more if the user wanted a braille display, maybe those could be 3d printed some day too. I wonder if someone started something like that on kickstarter, if it would take off? Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
