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Given the large amount of worry on this thread about getting one of the first 10000 I'm really looking forwards to seeing hundreds of blog posts and stories abo
by adaml_623 15y ago
Given the large amount of worry on this thread about getting one of the first 10000 I'm really looking forwards to seeing hundreds of blog posts and stories about people doing really interesting thing with their hard-fought purchases.
I'm only being half sarcastic. I really would like to see people do cool things with these. And I will be disappointed if it turns out that 9500 of them end up in a drawer after the first weekend.
- freehunter 15y agoI would fear more that 9500 of them end up on eBay at $200 per unit until the next batch comes along. I really don't like people profiting from squatting.
- ajays 15y agoThen the eBay buyers would post projects. Eventually the units (or most of them) will end up in the hands of a hacker, regardless of the route taken to get there.
- gaius 15y agoThey're not supposed to end up in the hands of hackers for $200+. They're supposed to end up in the hands of kids for $35.
- learc83 15y agoThis first run is not the educational release. These are specifically for hackers. The educational release will be later this year, and will include cases, power supplies, and an OS for the same price. This release is lacking all those. This early release is for hackers to play with, develop projects, and write tutorials, so that there is an ecosystem already in place for the educational release.
- moonchrome 15y ago>This early release is for hackers to play with, develop projects, and write tutorials, so that there is an ecosystem already in place for the educational release. A shame that the GPU specs aren't open, I would love to get in to GPU driver development with something like this.