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RE[2]: seems I was right
by unclefester on Tue 6th Dec 2011 03:28
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10" tablet with proper screen, 8/16Gb storage and a good ARM SoC still costs about $260 to manufacture.
Try $120. Tablets with this hardware already wholesale in China for well under $150.
A Tegra 3 quad core SoC currently costs less than $25.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Tegra-3-Costs-Between-15-25-1...
High end quad core tablets are expected to be <$300 within six months.
Heh, my laptop was fscked last night, but then again it does that every 30 boots or so. It was a minor annoyance. I wonder if thats how Apple sees getting fscked too?
I think they are probably using a shiny but limited GUI frontend to the UNIX way :
date;cd ~;gunzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
Edited 2011-12-06 19:58 UTC
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The Apple fanbois were telling us recently that a $200 tablet was impossible let alone a $99 one.
Apple RIP. You are now officially fscked. It will probably take a year or two before you begin to really hurt. After that your decline will be terminal.