if I remember correctly, the first EOMA68 cards will be $35 at volume, and Intel is advertising Skylake and Kabylake CPUs in their Compute Cards, so its clearly x86. Since they're targeting the mainstream will inevitably make their cards run Winodws. To make a $35 computer run desktop windows, you're going to have a bad time. They simply can't push the 4GB+ of RAM and 64GB+ of storage necessary to run Windows into a $35 card. $50? maybe? probably?
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.
So we can easily beat Intel on pricing for the computer cards, but on the docks? that's where we've got issues. It's hard to convince "normies" that Intel's ME is a problem, especially if they're already heavily invested in Windows and x86. For many of the people we're pitching our platform to, we're not only getting them to switch to Linux, we're also getting them to switch CPU architectures, and pay more for the hardware, too.
We're basically telling the "normies" that "yeah, we're better, but you can't run Windows, you can't run any of the games you currently play, and you have to pay more" which is really hard to sell.
-R
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Lauri Kasanen <cand@gmx.com> wrote:Hi, First laptop dock for Intel's copy: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile/42685-nexdock-transforms-intel-compute-card-into-14-inch-notebookoo that looks familiar! :) l.If it's reasonably cheaper than EOMA68 variant, then we have a problem.
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