1ghz ARM Laptop (12in 1280x800 LCD)

[lkcl]

for the past year i've been researching the practicality of putting together an ARM-based laptop, and have learned that it's neither difficult nor costly, if done carefully.

a little more here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2.../msg00086.html
and here:
http://lkcl.net/laptop.html

hard as it may be to believe, there is no such thing, in the world, as a 1ghz ARM-based laptop with an 11in screen or greater, with a resolution of 1280x768 or greater. there are a few with 1024x600 LCDs, but anyone who has worked with a 9in or 10in 1024x600 LCD for long will tell you that it is very hard work.

so i've picked this particular ubuntu forum to post this in, because the "problem" is that "i'm not detecting any 12in ARM-based laptops" on which to install ubuntu, and they're definitely not supported

my question here is, therefore: would anyone like to see such a laptop be brought into existence? please feel free to contact me directly and/or discuss amongst yourselves, either here or on one of the other forums (see forum links at bottom of http://lkcl.net/laptop.html)

if anyone knows of a more appropriate forum on which to post this please do advise. greatly appreciated.

l.

[BurningSludge]

I would be fine with something similar to what you are asking for but a 10 inch screen is big enough for me. The problem I have been having is that I can't find anything similar to what I want that hasn't been made in a shoddy manner out of led and cheap plastic. I can't find anything that I can actually buy with a decent amount of RAM (512MB <= x) and can take a 16GB SD card and a battery life of at least 4 hours.

I would really like it if someone produced a quality OMAP based laptop instead of the Wonder Media wonder media things you can buy from 25 or so companies in China that can't run a real Linux distribution because VIA likes to keep the specs a secret.

I am afraid that I would really have to start my own hardware company just have a chance at it.