News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder. Parent comment

Re:My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder by lukoktonos on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:53PM (#39405536)
I just bought a mini PC for $350 that has 32gb of ram, a windows 11 license, and is not much bigger than these devices by the looks of it.

People who find this small device useful must just not want to spend their (likely high $/hour) time with mundane things getting their expensive toy home servers working or something

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder by mtlynch on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:51PM (#39405872)
It's sort of apples and oranges because the mini PC you purchased almost certainly can't capture HDMI video and can't emulate a USB device.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder by ilaksh on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:56PM (#39405558)
I can't tell if you are trying to prove my point or discount it.

But you can't justify $300 for installing and configuring free software. As you say, you can get a much more powerful computer for even less than they are charging.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder by lukoktonos on Saturday February 17, 2024 @11:55AM (#39411150)
I was agreeing with you that it seems overpriced and relying on a niche market that doesn't care about being cost effective hardware-wise.
[ Parent | on HN ]