Rob van der Hoeven <robvanderhoeven <at> ziggo.nl> writes: > > > I think the hardware of this tablet can also be used as a server or > > > desktop computer. The tablet is mass produced and very cheap (i got mine > > > for 149 euro).
> > For that price, to make a server, I would rather buy a loco board or any > > other development board > These boards are not mass produced which makes them relatively > expensive. The i.MX LOCO board, the OMAP panda board, and some of the others cost about the same as your tablet. > Hardware that is not mass produced has some other issues, > namely availability and vendor lock-in You think that your tablet is going to have better availability and less lock-in than a board from Freescale or TI? That seems unlikely to me. Look at the BeagleBoard; it would be hard to find any smartphone or tablet device that has been available for as long as that has. > I think it must be possible to buy an android motherboard for just a > fraction of the price that i paid for my tablet. Why do you think that? I have personally never seen an "Android motherboard" offered for sale at all, let alone for a low price. > Why is relying on > hardware with a SoC such a bad idea? If the SoC is popular it will not > go out of production for a long time. No, that's not how it works. Both popular and unpopular chips are replaced on a schedule that's determined by advances in manufacturing technology. This also applies to the consumer products that are made from them: even if a device is popular, it will soon be replaced with something that is faster and cheaper. Regards, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
