Re:RISC-V Laptop now available
by thom_ on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:22PM
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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 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.
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It'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.
I think you're forgetting whom this product is aimed at. Also small batch vs a quantity product produced en masse like a latitude.
Those are such crappy laptops the latitude. So flimsy, such garbage
Wait till you hear about the Talos POWER-architecture computers
Re:RISC-V Laptop now available
by selfhoster11 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:03PM
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TALOS at least has a reason to exist, as eye-wateringly expensive as it is.
Re:RISC-V Laptop now available
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:21PM
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How is Talos any different? Just POWER vs RISC-V
Re:RISC-V Laptop now available
by selfhoster11 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:09AM
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Talos 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.