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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden View Post
Actually, it could. One of the big problems with motherboard is that once they're in the wild, anyone with enough technical knowhow can copy them.
The question was, can you take a Beagle Board and stuff it in an N800 or 770 case, and the answer to that is no (the guy who built the prototype being discussed in this thread investigated that possibility).

Originally Posted by Lord Raiden View Post
For one, all the chips are marked, as are the circuitry extras such as diodes, caps, etc. And a computer can copy the wiring traces on the board pretty easily too. So once you have that information, aside from the actual rom info on the chips, you could simply build your own beagle board on a new wafer and make it work.
The Beagle Board specs are open, and there are already several clones, so it'd be relatively simple to build your own. This isn't the proposal at hand, though, and the idea is pretty pointless. By the time you put together a board that'll fit into an N800 case, you might as well just buy an RX-51.
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