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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Lyberta <lyberta at lyberta.net> 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.
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> 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.