Indeed I almost forgot that they bought the whole terminal part of Nokia, but who uses Windows phone nowadays? It was good and solid on Qcom Snapdragon I understood (and killed/stopped STM business). BCM SoCs are simply under-powered for full-fledged Windows experience. The 4-core Cortex-A76 is OK I guess, but that isn't a whole computer nowadays. See die pictures of for example Apple silicon. Also note what you can buy in terms of NMVE SSD. It is PCIe-4 4-lane or so. Not single lane 2.x.I actually thought when RPL IPOed that Microsoft might buy into them and pay RPL or a third party to do the porting, but at the moment MSoft have bigger priorities with the AI revolution. They've done this in the past though so maybe in the future.
I wasn't aware that Windows11 is 'free'. At least the price of Windows has gone down a lot in the past decade or 2. I paid 20 euros for a digital license for Windows10 (a virtual machine), my N100 with Windows11 pre-installed costed 152 euros. I did shrink it a put Linux in other partitions, but still wonder how can it be that cheap. I have been registered with Insider program but the emails felt like spam at some point in time and I wasn't using Windows10 anymore on a regular basis.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Mon Nov 18, 2024 11:11 am
