I don't completely understand your goal. If the case has been designed to be able to sensibly 3d print replacement parts, why are you spending so much making the thing high-quality and durable in the first place?

After almost a year the Pinebook I bought doesn't have any broken parts at all. Additionally, that FF update that brought multi-threaded page loading was essentially equivalent to upgrading the CPU. (The people I bought it for use it mainly to browse.)

I assume that this product was able to source laptop parts from a factory that already had production set up for generic android notebooks or something like that, which would help keeping the prices down.

I also like how you avoid the whole Wi-Fi/OSS mess by just offering a mPCI slot so people can add proprietary hardware if they chose.

I wondered about that and then saw it only has 2GB RAM and a 16GB Flash drive.

I just wanted to say though. I absolutely love the hacker aesthetic those laptops have going on

Edit: I already purchased some critical parts (all SoC modules, 100x hinges, 2000 keyswitches, fans, optical sensors), and I have suppliers for the screen and batteries.

Best of luck with the project regardless.

That might be what you were looking for : https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=5734

I'm curious, what sort of battery life are you getting out of the setups that are currently available for pre-order?

Did you see anything similar?