[mdlug] Pi-top

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 15:30 -0500, Mathew May wrote:
> I am hoping in time that maybe the price will come down.

I am sceptical;  under one of the photos is the caption: "We built a 3D
printer to print the first Pi-Top prototypes affordably"

Only 3d-printers and affordably in the same sentence is a bit of a head
stand.  That is a very expensive way to make plastic parts; but to
justify the cheap way to make plastic parts you need to make LOTS of
them.  

The price of the other components is close to fixed; the price of
keyboards, etc... settled to its bulk-low price already.  I do not
believe they are going to move much more.

>  Either that or maybe they make their version made their spin of the
> OS and applications contained within available. 

All of that is *much* harder then assembling a case.

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