THD N2-A: ARM Cortex A8 based MacBook Air lookalike

Here’s an interesting report about the THD N2-A MacBook Air lookalike. From the article: “LED-backlit 1366 × 768 LCD, 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 1 gig of DDR3 RAM and 8 gigs of SSD storage, built-in 802.11b/g/n WiFi”.

Would make a nice RISC OS laptop!

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/07/thd-n2-kirf-macbook-air-ics/

Certainly would. I can’t understand why you’d want to run Android without a touchscreen though! Any ideas what SoC it uses?

Almost deja-vu with the Toshiba AC100 (Tegra 2)

From the video, an A10 (AllWinner) ARM Cortex A8. WXGA display also. Apparently the manufacturer is THD which means “Thread Technology Co” in Taiwan.

Unfortunately, Apple will probably litigate this out of existence given the similarity (down to the MagSafe power connector) to the MBA.

Shame really, it looks great.

From the video

Thanks, I’ve not watched it yet. No docs for the A10, last time checked.

I don’t know how much of this has been previously posted (I saw the CNX page you pointed out), although to the CNX page, someone has “leaked” the SDK documents to mediafire:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20487053&postcount=66

elinux.org has some info also:

http://elinux.org/Hack_A10_devices

And the XMBC A10 AllWinner dev wiki page:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Allwinner_A10

I don’t know how much of this has been previously posted (I saw the CNX page you pointed out), although to the CNX page, someone has “leaked” the SDK documents to mediafire:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20487053&postcount=66

elinux.org has some info also:

http://elinux.org/Hack_A10_devices

And the XMBC A10 AllWinner dev wiki page:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Allwinner_A10

The SDK document on mediafire seems to be more a general description of the development board. I write “seems” because it’s written in Chinese.

I think that’s going to be a problem – if a TRM exists and is available, it may well be in Chinese. And while automatic translation can sometimes be useful…

Maybe having some ROOL press releases translated into Chinese would then send those able to translate the TRM flocking here! (That may sound tongue-in-cheek, but is actually meant with some seriousness.)

Indeed … I suppose then the linux sources would be the best available reference.