Honestly though, Windows CE was the best of these for me. It had a proper GUI, networking support, compatibility with PowerPoint/Word/Excel, awesome battery life, good support for printing and external displays and a decent SDK. It lacked win32 support but it checked all the other boxes for me. Couldn't say that about any palm pilot I had.

Edit: forgot to mention that, of course I agree it was a different beast than windows

Yeah, but Windows CE wasn't in any meaningful sense Windows.

It was one of the generation of puny, souped-up embedded OSes (Symbian, BlackBerry) that slimmed-down, desktop-class OSes iOS and Android killed.

I built in 2019 right before the pandemic. Whole setup including mouse, keyboard, and monitor for just under $1200. My gpu was like $550 and my motherboard was $65.

Yeah, the render looks a little bit like a parody on "designed by GNU" :D

Seriously. Hardly anyone can afford to build computers these days. I built a (really great) entire rig for $1600 in 2013 and now that’s the cost of a GPU. It’s stupid.

I'm sure they'll find a way to raise the prices to make up for it, they always do.

There's a few possible reasons.

First, the supply chain is still fucked for some electronic components, and complex modules like motherboards and graphics cards require hundreds of components to work so the stock my simply not be there.

Second, newer motherboards are a lot higher quality than older ones as new communications specifications come out. Every time there's a new USB spec, 802.11 spec, Bluetooth spec, PCI spec, etc. the components to work with those get more complex, sensitive, and therefore more expensive.

Finally, it's possible that despite sales dropping the market is just in such a place that keeping the price of the components high is the best way to make profit. Eventually the prices will come down, but if the market for new motherboards is currently saturated there's not enough volume to justify dropping the price yet.

Also probably more expensive than a regular laptop!

Also exists only as a render. A shitty render. I will be shocked if this even makes it to prototype.

Price of DDR 5 motherboard and ram 👎

>which is a collective of rich folks when you break it down

Hahahahaahahahahah "even when it was the government, I knew it was our benevolent rich overlords" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Every time I've planned "upgrade as you go", there has been a pin change or chipset update or something that makes upgrading not worth the effort or expense.

But is battling them even a goal for open-source?

That’s how lobbying for government contracts works

Like a v quickly as in RISC V quickly?

With how fucked the supply chain still is they probably wouldn't be able to produce all that many more. Like graphics cards, motherboards are complex products made of hundreds of components, and if there's a supply issue with any one of them it has to be worked around.

>he then used his money to get that taxpayer money

What a funny little sentence

Good. I hope they have to eat those overpriced motherboards.

Love it

What makes you think the supply chain issues plaguing us since the start of the pandemic have gone away?

Patents expire. What is the priority of Intel's patent?

I think you’ve got a really really long way to go from the egg situation to making the case that GDP growth as a whole is solely the result of price gouging lol

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I got my Steamdeck for the price of a good current mobo. And I can sit in the hammock playing it outside, or in the livingroom, or take it to my kids room, steal the 2 switch cables, and load up Goat Simulator 3.

Between portable hardware and streaming I just don't see the current prices holding, and honestly expect demand to continue downward.

I would totally use to prop my phone on instead of my pinky which is starting to hurt