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Neat to see a RISC V laptop but they must be smoking crack if they think I’m paying $1500 for the privilege of recompiling my operating system really, really sl
by thom_ 4y ago
Neat to see a RISC V laptop but they must be smoking crack if they think I’m paying $1500 for the privilege of recompiling my operating system really, really slowly. And the 5k option is outright predatory. Someone needs to protect the vulnerable enthusiast market (you know who I’m referring to) from this kind of pricing. Ask a fair price. It’s an $800 laptop, maxed out.
- smoldesu 4y agoIt's a small-batch release of extremely-enthusiast hardware for a very niche segment of customers. They could charge $10,000 a pop and probably have no problem selling out. There are cheap RISC-V dev boards if you want to use them, but this is mostly evidently not that. These people wanted to see if they could build a fairly decent 'all-in' RISC-V machine, and it looks like they did.
- melony 4y agoWait till you hear about the Talos POWER-architecture computers https://www.raptorcs.com/ https://www.raptorcs.com/
- selfhoster11 4y agoTALOS at least has a reason to exist, as eye-wateringly expensive as it is.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoHow is Talos any different? Just POWER vs RISC-V
- selfhoster11 4y agoTalos makes it harder to backdoor the machine, because it’s radically open. An average RISC-V or ARM machine still contains various blobs and design compromises that make it harder to know that your code (or at least, code reviewed by you/the community at large) is the only thing running on the machine. I wouldn’t recommend Talos to anyone who doesn’t have the need for it (and vast pockets to match), but I wish every ARM and RISC-V machine could be as open and trustable.
- thom_ 4y ago
- incahoots 4y agoI think you're forgetting whom this product is aimed at. Also small batch vs a quantity product produced en masse like a latitude.
- thom_ 4y agoThose are such crappy laptops the latitude. So flimsy, such garbage