Intel Compute Stick

Re:Intel Compute Stick by mkingston on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @07:01AM (#8850027)

What a price difference. Wow. Dozens, nay, hundred of hours learning Linux finally pays off. Seriously now, I'm really pleased to see that you can choose Linux and pay so much less. Of course on a relatively more expensive machine that difference isn't much, but it's certainly a stark difference on such a cheap device.

Edit: I see there's a hardware difference too. That's a bit of a shame. I wonder what corporate forces are in action here..

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @07:16AM (#8850073)

I don't think it's evil corporate forces. They wanted a "budget" one with lower specs and realised they could reduce the price further by removing the Windows license.

I doubt it's actually that much of the price tag.

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by morganvachon on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @09:26AM (#8850614)

Considering Microsoft is giving away Windows 8.1 "with Bing" free for small devices[1], I doubt the OS has any bearing on the price difference.

[1] http://www.howtogeek.com/195934/what-exactly-is-windows-8.1-...

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by mkingston on Thursday January 08, 2015 @08:43AM (#8856291)

You're probably right. I didn't mean evil corporate forces. I will certainly concede that I used the wrong term. I was earnestly curious what the justification was. I should've said "business justification" or some such, given the (reasonable) interpretation of what I actually said.

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by StavrosK on Thursday January 08, 2015 @08:48AM (#8856318)

> Wow. Dozens, nay, hundred of hours learning Linux finally pays off.

Eh, the hundreds of hours I spent learning Windows were much less useful to me.

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