[Arm-netbook] First laptop dock for Intel's card announced

[ryan]

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


On 01/22/2017 04:02 PM, Lyberta wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Lauri Kasanen <cand at 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-notebook
>>   oo that looks familiar! :)
>>
>> l.
> If it's reasonably cheaper than EOMA68 variant, then we have a problem.
>
>
>
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