This is an updated to my previous Post on An Open Hardware Laptop - Building my Own Laptop by Andrew "bunnie" Huang. It's Here!:) Novena, the Open Source Laptop is ready for Pre-Orders now. Check it out...

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Novena - Crowd Supply

^$129,195 raised

of ^$250,000 goal

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Just the board

Ships November 2014

^$500

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33 claimed
All-in-One Desktop

Ships December 2014

^$1,195

Free Global Shipping!

24 claimed
Laptop

Ships January 2015

^$1,995

Free Global Shipping!

34 claimed
Heirloom Laptop

Ships February 2015

^$5,000

Free Global Shipping!

3 claimed

Funding ends May 18, 2014 at 11:59pm PDT

A new open-hardware computing platform, flexible and powerful, designed for use as a desktop, laptop, or standalone board.

Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It's designed for users who care about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping.

Premiums & Pledge Levels

We are offering four variations, and at the conclusion of the Crowd Supply campaign on May 18, all the prices listed below will go up by 10%:

	Just the board ($500) For crafty people who want to build their case and define their own style, we'll deliver to you the main PCBA, stuffed with 4GiB of RAM, 4GiB microSD card, and an Ath9k-based PCIe wifi card. Boots to a Debian desktop over HDMI. Ships six months after campaign conclusion.
	All-in-One Desktop ($1,195) Plug in your favorite keyboard and mouse, and you're ready to go; perfect for labs and workbenches. You get the circuit board above, inside a hacker-friendly case with a Full HD (1920x1080) IPS LCD, plus an extra aluminum bezel to hack on. Ships seven months after campaign conclusion.
	Laptop ($1,995) For hackers on the go, we'll send you the same case, board, and LCD as above, but with battery controller board, 240 GiB SSD, and a user-installed battery. As everyone has their own keyboard preference, no keyboard is included. Ships eight months after campaign conclusion.
	Heirloom Laptop ($5,000) A show stopper of beauty; a sure conversation piece. This will be the same board, battery, and SSD as above, but in a gorgeous, hand-crafted wood and aluminum case made by Kurt Mottweiler in Portland, Oregon. Ships nine months after campaign conclusion.

All configurations will come with Debian (GNU/Linux) pre-installed, but of course you can build and install whatever distro you prefer!
This is not a machine for the faint of heart. It's an open source project, which means part of the joy – and frustration – of the device is that it is continuously improving. This will be perhaps the only laptop that ships with a screwdriver; you'll be required to install the battery yourself, screw on the LCD bezel of your choice, and you'll get the speakers as a kit, so you don't have to use our speaker box design – if you have access to a 3D printer, you can make and fine tune your own speaker box.