We have made and we are making Donation Campaigns to pay the design e prototype production of our Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook end Desktop motherboard designed around GNU/Linux.

We will build a solidarity based purchasing group. Together we are looking for a fair price for everyone (a point of convergence between the amount needed to develop the notebook and the price the customers will pay).

The choice of a small manufacturer is both an ethical one and a forced one. It follows the paradigms of a human-centric economy in which a capital accumulation is not the reference value where there is passion, collaboration, and where the manufacturer has a modest benefit (enough for its financial stability).

In such economy customers can define the characteristics of the final product having a direct contact with the manufacturer. Customers then become an important part of the manufacturer economy taking care of its development.

This challenge was taken by ACube Systems an hardware manufacturer who is an actor of this project. The manufacturer takes part of this project not only for some profit but because they have interest in such challenge.

The motherboard is designed and the prototypes produced in Italy thanks to ACube Systems, whereas the rest of the notebook will be purchased in batch from Slimboook that provide us the entire body of the laptop. This is actually the entire case, the cooling system, the screen, the keyboard, the backlight, the webcam, the speakers and the battery.

In May 2025 after check the agreement of our supporters we have decided to realize a desktop board first allows us to concentrate on getting the core computing platform stable and functional, tackling the complexities of a laptop form factor (like power management, screen integration, etc.) in a later stage if needed.

In November 2025 the schematics design of this new board was concluded but still the the donation campaign is open and need you support to reach the goal of its dedicated Donation Campaign.

This community we are shaping up around this project is not only based on donors for the design and will not be just a purchasing group. We are helping designing this notebook and we are kindly inviting volunteer supporting PowerPC Debian GNU/Linux packages fixing and optimization.

We ask you to spread the word about this project so that we can be enough people to push the project forward.

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