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On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Lyberta <[email protected]> wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Lauri Kasanen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> First laptop dock for Intel's copy: >>> http://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile/42685-nexdock-transforms-intel-compute-card-into-14-inch-notebook >> >> oo that looks familiar! :) >> >> l. > > If it's reasonably cheaper than EOMA68 variant, then we have a problem. it would appear that way, initially, but remember that EOMA68 takes the long view... and expects users to be happy enough with being *long term* financially responsible and saving themselves money. additionally, there is the advantage that you can upgrade or add on as additional funds become available. but, more than that, i'm keenly aware - have been for years - that intel simply cannot deliver low-end, low-cost competitive x86 processors.... period. it's *literally* impossible for them to do so. as in, it's *literally* an engineering impossibility thanks to the compactness of the x86 instruction set. i've written about this at some length, a number of times. so they are making up for this by subsidising the market THREE times. to the OEMs, to the wholesalers, AND TO THE USERS. intel are PAYING the OEMs to make designs based around their processors intel are PAYING the wholesalers to stock products based around their processors intel are providing VOUCHERS to end-users who buy the products. at some point various monopolies and mergers commissions around the world are going to start noticing that and taking an interest, at which point intel will be forced to put the prices back up to their *real* values, which are far in excess of the alternative offerings based around ARM and MIPS. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
