Right, but I'm not really buying a Pinenote machine to strip it for parts. It's possible to build something that's worth less than its component parts.
The extra input, compute, etc... don't really matter if they don't work well together. My point was that optimizing for those things working well together is more important than trying to minimize the price tag. If it can be turned into a good notetaking device, and it's running an Open Linux distro, then $400 is completely reasonable, it's honestly pretty cheap. They could go higher.
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That being said, on reflection I probably could get some use out of a Linux-enabled remote e-ink monitor on its own. Maybe just as a wall mounted display for reminders/notes? People have retrofitted other tablets to support that, but being based on Linux and supporting wifi/bluetooth is a real selling point. But I'm just not certain I could get $200 (or even $100) worth of use out of that. Maybe $100?
Another way of looking at this is that even by itself, a 10.3" E-Ink raw display may not actually be worth $200 to most users, and it really only justifies its cost when it's combined with other hardware and drivers to make a compelling reader/notetaker.
Obviously other people will have different uses in mind and prices they would be willing to pay, but I'm thinking about "what functionality does this enable that would be worth $100/200 to get." If I can't come up with an answer to that question, then the raw hardware cost is kind of irrelevant to me, since I'm not buying a device in order to scalp parts, I want to actually use it.
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I guess also to be fair, there's a component to this of just paying Pine64 as much money as possible and buying all of their products to encourage them to keep working on the Linux ecosystem, and to encourage hackers to build on top of the devices. And that is also completely reasonable, and just the general attention from the Linux community towards E-ink displays and notetaking might be worth $100 regardless of anything else.
But I think that's a separate thing from "what is the device itself worth on its own?"
Right, but I'm not really buying a Pinenote machine to strip it for parts. It's possible to build something that's worth less than its component parts.
The extra input, compute, etc... don't really matter if they don't work well together. My point was that optimizing for those things working well together is more important than trying to minimize the price tag. If it can be turned into a good notetaking device, and it's running an Open Linux distro, then $400 is completely reasonable, it's honestly pretty cheap. They could go higher.
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That being said, on reflection I probably could get some use out of a Linux-enabled remote e-ink monitor on its own. Maybe just as a wall mounted display for reminders/notes? People have retrofitted other tablets to support that, but being based on Linux and supporting wifi/bluetooth is a real selling point. But I'm just not certain I could get $200 (or even $100) worth of use out of that. Maybe $100?
Another way of looking at this is that even by itself, a 10.3" E-Ink raw display may not actually be worth $200 to most users, and it really only justifies its cost when it's combined with other hardware and drivers to make a compelling reader/notetaker.
Obviously other people will have different uses in mind and prices they would be willing to pay, but I'm thinking about "what functionality does this enable that would be worth $100/200 to get." If I can't come up with an answer to that question, then the raw hardware cost is kind of irrelevant to me, since I'm not buying a device in order to scalp parts, I want to actually use it.
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I guess also to be fair, there's a component to this of just paying Pine64 as much money as possible and buying all of their products to encourage them to keep working on the Linux ecosystem, and to encourage hackers to build on top of the devices. And that is also completely reasonable, and just the general attention from the Linux community towards E-ink displays and notetaking might be worth $100 regardless of anything else.
But I think that's a separate thing from "what is the device itself worth on its own?"
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