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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Falling Windows Market Share
Date: 25 Jun 2025 23:23:59 GMT
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:00:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:53:37 -0400, Paul wrote:
> 
>> The customers on the other hand, are so price sensitive, it's
>> ridiculous. This is why I'm seeing questions now about NUC-like boxes.
>> Intel made NUC boxes for a while, the interest was limited to "rich
>> people". Intel would not drop the price.
> 
> Intel was trying to compete with the Raspberry Pi, by offering products
> with much less versatility at something like 10× the price.
> No wonder they couldn’t compete.

You keep saying that but it's a whole different niche. How many hats are 
there for the NUCs? How many GPIO pins does it have? If anything they were 
trying for a Mac Mini.