StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by devwastaken on Sunday February 12, 2023 @02:23AM (#34760689)

If real, it wouldn't surprise me.

A laptop isn't special. The most special part is the motherboard, and those are a dime a dozen designs. The bios soft is the other big component, but given the right partnerships I could see a small company just paying to use one out of a dozen various vendors.

The rest of the work is part sourcing.

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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by chx on Sunday February 12, 2023 @02:38AM (#34760756)

What about the custom plastic parts? Aren't those injection moulded? If so, how much is a mould?

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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by komali2 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:58AM (#34762838)

Now I'm thinking about whether I could CNC a laptop case from a brick of aluminum...

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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by stevehawk on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:44AM (#34763128)

isn't that what apple did/does?

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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by wkat4242 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:29PM (#34769123)

It is exactly, yes.

However doing this at small scale is very difficult to do cost-effectively.

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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by mastax on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:34AM (#34763058)

A mould is anywhere from a few thousand dollars for a small, simple, high-tolerance part, to many hundreds of thousands for a large, precision, complex mould with moving tools.

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