VisionFive 2 looks like a great board. I'll know in six weeks or so when my super early bird 4 GB one arrives (and a regular 8 GB in February). However it does

VisionFive 2 looks like a great board. I'll know in six weeks or so when my super early bird 4 GB one arrives (and a regular 8 GB in February). However it doesn't have a case, screen, battery, charger, keyboard, trackpad ... $1500 seems entirely reasonable for any laptop that is being made in quantities of 1000s (only 100 before New Year) not millions, regardless of what processor is in it. I've certainly paid far more money for slower laptops in the past ... PowerBook 100, Duo 230, Wallstreet G3/266, 1.0 GHz G4 17" to name a few. In raw CPU performance, it's probably similar to a Core 2 Duo MBP ($1999 for a 2.16 GHz in 2006). But it's got twice the cores, far more RAM, far more "disk", far better GPU. The VisionFive 2 is more like one of the last Pentium IIIs or G4s in performance, per core.