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Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra

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Post by Bakary »

nevi-me wrote: post #66

It continues to suck how African countries are excluded from these product launches and from many products in general. Microsoft has enough partners and regional offices because Office365 and Azure are the only worthy products for us in "shithole countries". If Microsoft isn't intending on selling a lot of these devices, the cost of adding 1 or 2 African countries would be relatively small compared to the revenue the…

Are there any actual stats of how profitable African countries are for Microsoft?

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Post by klodolph »

TwoNineA wrote: post #72
klodolph wrote: post #11

It makes sense. The Mac Mini is what you get if you want to make a Mac or iOS app, but you want to keep your Windows or Linux system for daily use.

What's wrong with using a Mac Mini as a daily driver?

I think you may be responding to something I didn’t write :-)

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Post by klodolph »

pell wrote: post #63
klodolph wrote: post #11

It makes sense. The Mac Mini is what you get if you want to make a Mac or iOS app, but you want to keep your Windows or Linux system for daily use.

Are you sure? I don't want to go the anecdote route here but I know plenty of people who use Mac minis as daily driver desktop machines.

Yes, I’m pretty sure that the Mac Mini is good as a machine for developing Mac and iOS applications. I have myself used it for this purpose in the past, and it worked very well.

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Post by 708145_ »

nevi-me wrote: post #66

It continues to suck how African countries are excluded from these product launches and from many products in general. Microsoft has enough partners and regional offices because Office365 and Azure are the only worthy products for us in "shithole countries". If Microsoft isn't intending on selling a lot of these devices, the cost of adding 1 or 2 African countries would be relatively small compared to the revenue the…

Excluded how you mean?

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Post by bitL »

Maybe I am missing the point, but why wouldn't you rather buy a NUC instead of this slow box? I get it MS wants to be like Apple, meticulously copying anything that pops up there, but their brand is associated with different "experiences" and their main value lies in backwards compatibility and open hardware ecosystem.

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Post by cjensen »

lostmsu wrote: post #49

Lack of HDMI is disappointing.

HDMI connectors cost a lot of money to the HDMI licensing authority. This payment is very painful if you have a small quantity of shipments. DisplayPort is free. And as others have pointed out, you just need to buy a cable.

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Post by gopalv »

klodolph wrote: post #11

It makes sense. The Mac Mini is what you get if you want to make a Mac or iOS app, but you want to keep your Windows or Linux system for daily use.

> The Mac Mini is what you get if you want to make a Mac or iOS app

This is probably closer to the Mac Mini with M1 that they shipped to kick-start the Apple Silicon transition for desktop apps.

Because if I was a windows programmer for today's customers, I can't really build things on a "Windows on Arm" device like this.

Like Apple before, I hope this is just the first salvo against the Windows+Intel, before we all switch to Arm chips (including Intel fabs).

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