I like the idea of such a computer, but is there a reason why the "full package" costs almost the same price as a M2 MacBook Pro? I may not be the target audience but it feels strange.
B) because people will pay that for shiny nerd toys
Had to work with macbook for multiple years. Will not buy one even for half the price. Knowing that my money is basically going into billionaires pocket so workers in China are building, in terrible conditions, what is a shiny marketed/hipsterish toy that will end as a polluting piece of junk in a few years is not my philosophical ideal.
A Macbook on the other hand is targeting millions of devices. If we assume, let's say, a Macbooks budget for the same thing was $500M, selling only 10M puts the individual NRE cost to be $50.
This is the better business to support from where I'm sitting.
- disgruntled early pinephone order survivor
Similarly MNT warns people about going with RISC-V options in their products. I really hope MNT can get their risc-v modules bumped up with the new SoC's hitting the marking in the coming year as support is born.
That's no excuse for problems in order fulfillment, poor communication of delays, and months of silent treatment when cancelling. The whole experience resembled buying from a flaky unresponsive ebay seller.
It's just not operationally well run in my experience, YMMV.
The disclaimer is acceptable for things like dead pixels or poor/unstable driver support... I'm not referring to anything along those lines.
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