> 3.5" isn't THE dimension spec, it is the largest form factor I would
> use.
2.5" biscuits are more expensive. SOMs are expensive to get started
with but can work out cheaper in volume. I'm not aware of one that
meets your res spec though.
Reply by GoCoogs●March 2, 20062006-03-02
CLARIFICATION
3.5" isn't THE dimension spec, it is the largest form factor I would
use.
3.5" or smaller.
Reply by larwe●March 2, 20062006-03-02
> What is the price range for buying a single 3.5" SBC that has an output
> resolution of 1280 x 1024 @ 64k colors?
Between US$300 and $650 for the exact same board depending on who you
buy it from and what the context of the sale was. The cheapest route to
this resolution with decent performance is a Via Eden or C3-based board
with the Apollo-series companion chipset (containing an S3 CRTC/LCDC).
BYO RAM and boot media.
There are some boards with [mostly] 486-class CPUs and C&T (Asiliant)
69030 controllers that will support your target resolution, but this is
hoary technology. A 486 doesn't have what it takes to blit around this
much display memory.
> Where are the best places to look for prices on the net for these kinds
> of components? Most of the places I've seen ask you to call for a
Places that advertise retail pricing on this sort of hardware are
usually resellers putting very large margins on the products - they buy
in relatively small quantity, and add their own margin on top of that
already high price. In order to get real prices, you need to go through
the tedium of calling the suppliers, I'm afraid.
Some vendors - like Advantech - offer online shopping for _some_ of
their products but not all. IEI (BCM/eValuetech) is cheaper than
Advantech for more or less identical products (even down to the same
mechanical layout) but they are harder to deal with.
It's hard to work out how many different manufacturers of this stuff
there really are. When they all use the same chips and the same BIOS
code, and all seem to suffer the same bugs which all get fixed [or not]
at the same time, it seems suspicious that there is just one factory in
China somewhere turning out all this stuff.
Reply by GoCoogs●March 2, 20062006-03-02
What is the price range for buying a single 3.5" SBC that has an output
resolution of 1280 x 1024 @ 64k colors?
How much do the cheapest PC/104 Plus compliant SBCs cost?
Where are the best places to look for prices on the net for these kinds
of components? Most of the places I've seen ask you to call for a
quote.
Thanks in advance for the info.
-Blake