I'm not telling people to buy ThinkPenguin computers over Mini free's. I know
that is hard to believe, but I didn't say that. I'm perfectly fine with
people buying Mini free's systems. They are better in this respect at the
moment. They won't be forever, but they are right now.
We have plenty of business to keep us going in the direction we're going.
Mini free is a tiny tiny tiny competitor who really isn't worth my time to
even respond to. However it bugs me to have him saying half-truths about a
company and me personally. I've been focused on and attacking these problems
for *years*. We've even been working on these problems and developing a
*real* more permanent solution- just nobody even knows we're doing it because
I haven't said anything about it publicly.
However if we spent time free'ing our current computers (which isn't even
possible) it would be wasting resources. We already made an investment to
ensure people can avoid moving to Skylake (which is worse than prior Intel
based technology). It's not a great answer, but it's better than doing
nothing at all. And we're still working on 100% free routers and other
devices. We have multiple projects going. Not just one project.
It's a matter of limited resources and directing those resources where it'll
make the most difference. It makes more sense to direct those resources at
designing ARM laptops and torward various other projects than it does to
direct those resources at free'ing X86.
