I'm not sure, I have read that "chip shortage," but it has been like this for years. CM4 modules literally do not exist in any shop in the world, only ebay scalpers and such for 5x the price.

Also similar singe board computers are easily available. Clearly this isn’t a supply chain problem.

Yes, but it means that the quoted price is 28% higher than the cost you actually pay. If they say a laptop will cost 1000, the actual cost is something like 750 for you. That means that higher prices on business laptops aren't entirely felt by the business customer - and if you are getting other stuff in the deal like on-site service, it's worth it.

Depends what you want them for. I want to be portable with the capability to play recent games at good enough quality and an ability to run CAD and software when I need. Can't be portable with a desktop, can't get the performance with something that's only $800 the cheapest category of laptop.

What do you do that your employees generate 2 million a year in revenue? Or at least avoid that much in costs?

My work paid for my business laptop so it’s fine

Yep it sucks and I can’t believe that somehow they are unable to produce more… the demand is there yet nothing is happening. It’s sad that they are letting the community down which pushed their product to what it is today

Yes, but the pi 400 remains a good alternative because it is the only option in stock

I still have two T61s, chugging along just fine. I have a client still running a T43. They will not die.

>In most places, you are able to use computers to decrease the profits used to calculate your tax if you're a business.

Spending a buck you don't need to spend simply to save paying twenty-eight cents in taxes is a horrible financial idea.

I remember when they were cheap and easy to get. It’s probably been close to ten years since I first bought one. Wtf happened!?

>Businesses also can afford it because it's a tax write off

That's not how tax write-offs work.

As you noted above, businesses buy them because they're rock-solid and come with top-notch service for the rare times they aren't.

Theoretically, yes. In practice that is a lot of work. Depending on how accurate you want your street view to be, GPS alone might not be enough. You'd need to add inertial data as well and probably some post processing to get your trajectory down to a few meters. Otherwise each set of pictures might have 10 or 20 meters of horizontal error in their positions.

TLDR mobile mapping is hard. Source: I work in GNSS validation.

The prices are high because sending a tech within 4 hours to wherever the hell you happen to be when something gets fucked is expensive.

The prices are high because confining to use obsolete parts that have to be sourced from “sketchy yeti manufacturing company” because the enterprises imaged for them is expensive.

The prices are high because these machines are paying for themselves every hour with the amount of value produced for the company and most business would happily pay many times their cost for them. Supply & Demand

+1, why should we even care?

jokes on you, there's a reason why the steam deck exists.

+1, also niche product

yea, the author should have defended the product rather then selling out by stupid comparisons to the giants.

do you use this as a dildo?

while in an affiliate program with them, muthafucka what makes you think they wont do the same thing 6 months down the line?

even the author of the article sold out to shill this crap, stfu.

Banana phoooone

Lmao. Its less than 2 years old.

That is a very old laptop.

who would a flat tax be good for? certainly not an economy that is 70% consumption

you clowns are so naive it is fucking scary

Main thing is it’s pretty much impossible to upgrade them and like 99% of them have overheating issues when playing anything too graphic intensive.

Definitely not worth the price. Just buy a desktop or get a switch

But how do you make your PCMK card work without a PCMCIA slot? DH+ at 57.6kb is all you need! /s

Pre VMware I had multiple hard drives for different era controllers. Was really fun in the bad old days of when you could only have one Logix 5000 version installed at a time.