Summary
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Argon40’s Argon One up is a raspberry pie-operated laptop, with laptops with upgradable components including processors and memory.
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The device has a durable aluminum chassis, 14-inch IPS display, backlit keyboard and various I/O ports for connectivity.
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The laptop supports the third-party computable module with the same form factor, making it versatile for developers.
Raspberry PIs are everywhere. And they are often used as everyday computers. This laptop is powered by a raspberry pie – and it is more cooler than you think.
Argon40, the company known for its matters for the Raspberry Pie Computer, is expanding its product line with a new device, Argon One up, which is actually a full laptop operated by a raspberry pie 5 compute module (CM5). The central concept of Argon One Up is its progress. While most laptops contain solder processors, this device allows you to choose and replace the entire system-on-a-model. All Raspberry Pie CM5 variants have BCM2712 quad-core arm cortex-e76 processor, but you can select modules with 2GB to 16GB RAM. Options include onboard EMMC storage and integrated Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 up to 64GB.
What is more, if the new Raspberry Pie Compute Module maintains the same form factor (which is probably the case), upgrading the laptop’s core processing power and memory is just a simple swap – rebuild the old PCB, get the new PCB, screw the new, just the same way. You can also use the third-party calculation module with different processors. If they are the same form factor, they provide even more flexibility. Reaching the CM5 and M.2 storage slots is straightforward – all you have to do is to do some screws on the panel below.
The laptop chassis itself is made of a durable aluminum alloy, a 14-inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel IPS display, a backlit keyboard and a multitach trackpad sports. For storage, it contains an M.2 2280 slot that supports user-replaced PCIE 2.0 X1 SSDs. And for I/O, we have two USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A port, a USB 2.0 Type-A, a pair of USB 2.0 Type-C, one and USB-C for charging, a HDMI port, a microSD card reader (NEET) (NEET) and 3.5 mm audio jack. There is a clever ad-on that uses two USB 2.0 Type-C port to provide external 40-pin GPio header. It gives developers the same kind of hardware-level access to the hardware-level access found on standard raspberry pie boards, which makes the argon very clean to develop electronic projects while moving. The header appears that a consistent 5 watt may attract, so Argon40 also includes a dedicated power button on the module to disable it when not used.
Connected
This raspberry pie can survive in cold conditions
For all types of embedded applications.
Argon One up is set to launch soon through a kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. Whereas A preview page is live (And important details such as the actual crowdfonding part should be live soon), the final value and the expected battery life have not been declared yet, but whenever the kickstare campaign is really live, we will probably know more.
Source: Liliputing
