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I knew this would happen, but nobody seemed to believe it. If they can't even compete with the ARM versions because of the cost of Windows, imagine how much mor

I knew this would happen, but nobody seemed to believe it. If they can't even compete with the ARM versions because of the cost of Windows, imagine how much more expensive the Intel tablets will be - and they probably won't even support any retina-like resolution (definitely not on Atom). Also keep in mind that the costs to manufacturers usually double at retail ($300 components - $600 product, etc). So $100 on a Windows 8 license to manufacturers, will be about $200 added to the tablet's price at retail.

daulex 14y ago
While licensing (without a doubt) is a big issue, I think the infrastructure that Apple have in place for manufacturing and sourcing of materials is second to none. This is only possible due to forward thinking people and a ridiculous amount of demand, the two together mean bulk buying prices available to them only. The competition will catch up at some point, but I fear that it might require a couple huge mergers for this to happen.
ctdonath 14y ago
And not just "the cost of Windows" and the less-mentioned "the cost of Pentium", but that both must be created to be general-purpose enough to work with any implementation of either - to wit, more overhead costs that don't pay off for particular instances. This vs Apple building both the OS and hardware for each other and nothing else. There's a whole lotta bulk from M$ and Intel products that Apple doesn't have to provide nor charge for.