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Thanks for the suggestions! Wow, it would be great if you could talk to Intel about licensing the NUC at a lower price, we could indeed use it (and the addition

by shanpc 13y ago

Thanks for the suggestions! Wow, it would be great if you could talk to Intel about licensing the NUC at a lower price, we could indeed use it (and the additional better hardware) and it would likely be better than what we've spec'd out for the same price point. Note that it may not be quite right to compare the price with the barebones NUC though - we do include 4 GB RAM, an SSD hard drive (we're hoping for at least 64 GB, if not more) and do some manual work in pre-installing Ubuntu on this (no Windows tax!) so you have a fully-working system out of the box. With the NUC, you would have to buy the components yourself and install Linux, which would likely come to the same price point (again, we realize most HN readers can do this with their eyes closed.) EDIT: as for the $20 "supporter mention during the installer" suggestion - we want to install stock Ubuntu, so this might be hard. We can probably put up a perk that involves having the contributor's names on our website, etc.

hardwaresofton 13y ago
yeah so maybe the NUC is not a good example (I had no idea it costs so close to $300) -- but this is better: http://liliputing.com/2012/10/more-small-pc-boards-with-x86-processors-for-75-or-less.html http://liliputing.com/2012/10/more-small-pc-boards-with-x86-... You should have quite a bit of space after $80 -- the NUC is more expensive than I expected it to be (I thought it was closer to 200 than 300). I do still encourage reaching out and seeing if they would at least like to take a stab at this. While I'm not the kind of mover-shaker that would be able to muscle this through, I think you could get some serious consideration. I can look into the proper channels next week also. Oh and yeah, if you're installing stock Ubuntu you probably might not be able to do that... but maybe changing something small like setting the default home page to your distribution's thank you page? or something Also, cool/catchy linux-themed T shirts will go a long way.
- shanpc 13y ago
  The motherboard shown on lilliputing.com looks good - but at $80 for the motherboard, and once you add $75 for the case and power supply and fan, plus SSD ($80) and RAM ($40), the total's quickly going to close to what we've already priced our unit at. :-/ We did quite a bit of research - this was really the lowest we could price it at given our volume and the BOM (cost of raw materials.)

by shanpc 13y ago

hardwaresofton 13y ago

yeah so maybe the NUC is not a good example (I had no idea it costs so close to $300) -- but this is better: http://liliputing.com/2012/10/more-small-pc-boards-with-x86-processors-for-75-or-less.html http://liliputing.com/2012/10/more-small-pc-boards-with-x86-... You should have quite a bit of space after $80 -- the NUC is more expensive than I expected it to be (I thought it was closer to 200 than 300). I do still encourage reaching out and seeing if they would at least like to take a stab at this. While I'm not the kind of mover-shaker that would be able to muscle this through, I think you could get some serious consideration. I can look into the proper channels next week also. Oh and yeah, if you're installing stock Ubuntu you probably might not be able to do that... but maybe changing something small like setting the default home page to your distribution's thank you page? or something Also, cool/catchy linux-themed T shirts will go a long way.

shanpc 13y ago
The motherboard shown on lilliputing.com looks good - but at $80 for the motherboard, and once you add $75 for the case and power supply and fan, plus SSD ($80) and RAM ($40), the total's quickly going to close to what we've already priced our unit at. :-/ We did quite a bit of research - this was really the lowest we could price it at given our volume and the BOM (cost of raw materials.)