Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 6 Aug 2025 06:21:02 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ncfl$1i3j7$1@dont-email.me> <106otv7$1sov2$3@dont-email.me> <106p5l8$1u8pt$1@dont-email.me> <106p7bq$1uggd$1@dont-email.me> <106p99c$1uv2b$1@dont-email.me> <106pfje$1vp0f$3@dont-email.me> <689288bd@news.ausics.net> <106u2la$3235p$1@dont-email.me> <68929421@news.ausics.net> <106ujul$35ck9$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ri9CIxWeZRRDvQFIHMLqXA03azi4IEPv12qSZS2Zx736uz3Swa Cancel-Lock: sha1:W4pI6OEJdi/bKwSlffLY7et5Sow= sha256:0mSFOnj7lnJz165iam5G4zvFEGTlnei25wOn9ghf/DM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70433 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21707 On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 23:59:14 -0400, Paul wrote: > Intel has to be careful when doing these projects, to not eat into the > lucrative laptop market. There are good margins in laptops, and they > would not want to spoil the laptop market, by offering too much value in > one of these little formfactor plays. I have an Acer Swift 3 laptop with the Ryzen 7 processor. With the obvious exception of the display and keyboard the Beelink SER 4 has almost identical hardware. That was a factor in my choice of the SER 4. When I bought the laptop in 2020 it was $679.99. In 2022 the Beelink was $389.00. I run a 4 channel KVM so the peripherals weren't an additional cost but if you had to buy them it would eat up a lot of the $290. i prefer AMD anyway but when I looked at the Intel NUCs in '22 they weren't competitive.