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51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

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51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#1 Post by lazycat » Sun May 01, 2016 6:25 am

the big boss of 51nb.com, HOPE, decieded that X62 mainboard would be on sell at 15:00, May 1st.
in this batch, therer are 200 pieces waiting for X61 fans of 51nbers
HOPE also said that 51nb will consider selling this mainboard abroad later.

http://forum.51nb.com/thread-1674908-1-1.html

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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#2 Post by xiphmont » Sun May 01, 2016 7:34 am

I've acquired a first-run board for testing (have it in-hand). There are a few minor issues that absolutely needed to get fixed before a full rollout, but I'm actually pleasantly surprised by the overall polish. It exists, and it works. It works well. I dearly wish there was a tablet version, or at least a version with a second battery/charging circuit (so I could use an internal battery in the HDD bay; that's ~ 3000mAH of wasted space!)

My goal is to bench it against a bored/stroked X61 running a P9700 Penryn, assuming I succeed in actually building that beast.

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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#3 Post by whitelabel » Sun May 01, 2016 7:37 am

Thank you for the info! That's some really good news :)
I only hope that they will wind a way to sell it abroad. I'm sure there are lots of people who want this new mobo.

Could you inform us when they will be offering an international sale?

Cheers

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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#4 Post by lazycat » Mon May 02, 2016 3:11 am

whitelabel wrote:Thank you for the info! That's some really good news :)
I only hope that they will wind a way to sell it abroad. I'm sure there are lots of people who want this new mobo.

Could you inform us when they will be offering an international sale?

Cheers
welcome
HOPE said that he would consider international sale in the next batch, i think it would be 2 or 3 months later

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#5 Post by RMSMajestic » Tue May 03, 2016 9:49 am

really bad that I have to wait..... too much college work :/
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#6 Post by Tasurinchi » Mon May 09, 2016 3:46 am

Great news... At least partially since the kit won't be available out of China :roll:
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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#7 Post by E350 » Wed May 18, 2016 10:10 am

Subscribed.

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#8 Post by sloggy » Sun Jun 05, 2016 1:21 pm

Any updates on this?

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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#9 Post by czytcn » Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:59 am

the first branch sale has finished. the next step is to work on Thinkpad T6x.
a Chinese ThinkPad fans.

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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#10 Post by Frobe70 » Fri Jul 08, 2016 1:27 am

It may look like these boards (T50 and X62) are proof of concept tests, and only one batch of cards are made for each design?
Are they afraid Lenovo will take action if these cards get sold internationally?

Hopefully the T6x design will be free of major bugs and sold internationally.
(Don't forget it must also support QXGA displays, not only UXGA).
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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#11 Post by amigabill » Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:01 am

very cool! i would be interested in one for the sake of a project to play with, if nothing else.

any chance this uses coreboot for firmware/bios?

any chance design schematic and pcb files are open, or is it a proprietary design?

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Re: 51NB.com: X62 mainboard in the way

#12 Post by creshal » Fri Dec 23, 2016 4:20 pm

The current revision is proprietary and uses a regular, closed source UEFI. Not sure about future plans, I think they're a biiit swamped with all the attention.

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