On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:03:54 -0500 "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2017 04:19 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > > To me, these prices look more like a 'polite' extortion for the > > 'obsessed' and gullible. > I can't understand as to why everyone always compares the pricing to > that of a daily browsing computer and not intel/amd's high end server > offerings where the CPU's alone cost thousands of dollars - it is the > average price for server hardware in that performance class. Because the average person needs a COTS (Commodity Off The Shelf) computer, not a .999999 uptime server. > > I remember a time when x86 computers regularly went for $2,000+ for > something that wasn't even high end, eventually the prices came down. That was 1986, and IIRC prices kept going up till maybe 1993. But in those days, only people with a professional, economic justification bought such computers. And in those days, they made computers more robust, because computers had to be kept in service for over 5 years. And very, VERY few individuals had multiple computers that were still viable. The sub-$1000 computer spawned entirely new uses for computers, that would stop being viable if computers went up to $4600.00. <disclaimer>In 1990 I bought a Gateway 486-25 with 2MB RAM for $4190.00. I was contract-programmer with several customers, and needed a computer to efficiently run all the software I developed, all the programming and documentation programs needed for my work, and sufficient resources to open my 150 page book in less than a half hour. My situation was far from typical: The typical person back then had no computer.</disclaimer> > > More info about less expensive options: > https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/kgpe-d16 > https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/kcma-d8 (board is $250, cpu > $20-$100) > https://www.raptorengineering.com/coreboot/kgpe-d16-bmc-port-status.php > (libre remote management firmware for these two) Nice! SteveT Steve Litt November 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
