I'm not trying to agree/disagree with your point however, lets put pricing in perspective (yes I DO have one of these and I'm typing on it right now).
Try $600-$650USD Retail upon initial release.
Actually, let me give you a more realistic price...
try $600-$650USD
These should not be compared to shuttles, totally different league and much more engineering effort.
People DO use intel compilers.
Intel has one of the best compiler teams in the industry incase you haven't noticed... they now own the entire ex-DEC Fortran/C/C++ compiler teams!
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You can wack in 2 x 2GB sticks but Iwill choose to promote 2 x 1GB sticks as a safety buffer. 2 x 2GB for 4GB total is currently undergoing testing.
Yep their servers are great! :)
DK8N should bring up lots of hits around the net.
The QK8S is a very unique board as well.
They don't feel the need for the Parallel, the header for the 2nd serial port is there however.
I'm not trying to agree/disagree with your point however, lets put pricing in perspective (yes I DO have one of these and I'm typing on it right now). Try $600-$650USD Retail upon initial release.
Actually, let me give you a more realistic price... try $600-$650USD These should not be compared to shuttles, totally different league and much more engineering effort.
Where did you did the bogus price of $400 from?
And where did you see a MSRP of $499?
People DO use intel compilers. Intel has one of the best compiler teams in the industry incase you haven't noticed... they now own the entire ex-DEC Fortran/C/C++ compiler teams!