PPC Laptop, something for MorphOS?
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12503 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    Update:

    > https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/03/we-are-ready-for-prototype-production/

    Schematics of the desktop board published and old donations been rededicated:

    "On the 24th of April 2026 we published on our GitLab repository [...] the OrCad schematics source, converted to Altium and then imported into KiCad [...]. [...] On 6th April 2026, thanks to the funds collected for the Notebook CE certification and due to the temporary halt of Notebook motherboard production, the association used €2,130 from that previous campaign to pay and balance the Desktop Schematics design costs that are €6,250. A further €8,000 from association funds was used to pay a portion of the PCB costs in advance. The total cost of the PCB design is around €12,500; since €8,000 came from association funds, we have reduced the goal of the PCB donation campaign to €4,500."
    https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/04/kicad-schematics-sources-published-waiting-funds-for-prototypes/

    With this, the financial state of all campaigns/phases is as follows:

    I_0. 12600 EUR: Electrical schematics [accomplished]
    I_1A. 19000 EUR: PCB [accomplished]
    I_1B. 5000 EUR: Fast SI bus simulations [accomplished]
    I_2. 13500 EUR: Prototypes [accomplished]
    I_3. 14000 EUR: Testing [accomplished]
    I_4. 12500 EUR: Certification [19% done]
    I_5. 5357 EUR: Prototypes and MXM graphics cards [accomplished]
    II_1. 1000 EUR: JTAG debugger [accomplished]
    II_2. 5000 EUR: U-Boot [accomplished]
    II_3. 8000 EUR: Fix everything that's broken [accomplished]
    III_1. 6250 EUR: Electrical schematics (desktop) [accomplished]
    III_2. 12500 EUR: PCB (desktop) [74% done]
    III_3. 9000 EUR: Prototypes (desktop) [0% done]
    III_4. ??? EUR: Testing (desktop)
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