On 01/22/2017 05:32 PM, ryan wrote:
Now, what about the laptop chassis? EOMA68 currently has a $500 chassis available. I haven't seen any volume pricing or other options for reducing the price down to a level more managable for a "normie" who's used to $200-300 throwaway laptops. $500 for an "empty shell" is really easy for a behomoth like Intel to beat. Heck, they could do a fully-fledged laptop casing and include a Windows-capable compute card for less than that because they have more money to play with, and could even sell at a loss to build marketshare.
I think one of the videos had Luke saying that it would probably be ~$300 at mass volume.
In any case, the current EOMA68 laptop has something else you're leaving out: the fact that it is built of several easily obtainable parts, with everything else 3-D printed. Meaning it's *repairable*. The laptop mentioned for Intel compute cards is just a standard laptop case.
Also, I would like to point out that the laptop is *not* made by Intel. It's made by a small company that made a similar product in the past (utilizing things like smartphones) through IndieGoGo. I seriously doubt Intel will directly subsidize them, so they won't be able to sell their laptop chassis at a loss. Unless there's some kind of license fee that needs to be paid out, Intel probably isn't even aware of the project.
What's it going to cost, anyway? I don't see any indication of what it's going to cost, or any concrete information, really. It could be more expensive than the EOMA68 15" laptop, for all we know.