From: Gerald M. <gm...@in...> - 2007-06-28 19:48:08
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Gordon, We are looking into Gumstix for our next product. Power consumption is more important to us than speed. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: gum...@li... [mailto:gum...@li...] On Behalf Of Pat Winn Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:40 PM To: Gordon Kruberg Cc: General mailing list for gumstix users. Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Inventory.. Gordon, With any luck, the product we are designing will sell in sizable quantities. IF that happens, we are looking to keep costs as low as possible (of course) in all components involved. Having said that, our current test platform has been the Connex 200xm (16Mb). I believe that we could easily enough at this point move on up to the Verdex platform and the newer kernel builds/layouts, etc...and to some degree I would prefer to do that before getting too serious about rolling things out. However, I look at it from two directions. 1) The Connex 200xm is plenty enough hardware for the product (though more is always nice, but not if it costs significantly more) 2) Cost. Gotta keep it as low as reasonably possible. I guess it's fair to say that we had been looking at trying to stay with the Connex platform for primarily cost purposes. I don't however want to see us end up using outdated stuff as the Verdex evolves and moves forward..along with the kernel, etc. One also has to realize that Gumstix has to be able to only go so far back in supporting older versions of things. I wouldn't expect the Connex to be supported forever. If the cost could be brought down a bit on the verdex boards, I would be more than happy to migrate our project on up and leave the Connex behind. A little time lost..yes, but probably well worth it in the long run. I believe we were looking at paying like $99 a board for the Connex 200xm vs. now $30 more per unit to go to the lower end Verdex. I'm totally open to suggestions/thoughts/comments at this point. Thanks for listening. :-) --Pat > Pat, > > (1) We have no plans to discontinue the basix and connex product lines. > We have several OEM customers that require these for products for the > forseeable future. > > (2) We are contemplating the discontinuation of 200MHz 4MB products as > "single quantity purchases" That is, in our current thought process, > the 400 MHz 16MB would be the standard version available to everyone in > any quantities; to have the slower/smaller flash [and yes, cheaper] > would require lots exceeding 120 units (our minimum custom build) > > (3) The background on this involves watching the requirements of the > rootfs in addition to the costs of products and the number of evolving > stock items we manage. We are preparing to support a wide range of > accessories (of particular note are GPRS/Edge, LCD/TS, and NiMH battery > packs) and the growth of the standard required modules makes it > difficult to get a good rootfs into 4MB. > > As ever, we would appreciate comment on this. > > Gordon > > >> I see that the Connex 200 is out of stock. >> Are these going to be continued or discontinued now that >> the verdex boards are out? >> >> If they are to be discontinued I really need to know now >> so that I can throw out all my work and move up to the verdex >> platform. Sigh.. >> >> Thanks.. >> --Pat >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - >> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >> _______________________________________________ >> gumstix-users mailing list >> gum...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ gumstix-users mailing list gum...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |