Re: Falling Windows Market Share

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:53:37 -0400, Paul wrote:
 

The customers on the other hand, are so price sensitive, it's
ridiculous. This is why I'm seeing questions now about NUC-like
boxes. Intel made NUC boxes for a while, the interest was limited to
"rich people". Intel would not drop the price.

 
Intel was trying to compete with the Raspberry Pi, by offering
products with much less versatility at something like 10× the price.
No wonder they couldn?t compete.
 

Intel has exited the NUC market, Asus got the formfactor from them.
But now, the pricing is competitive, and the price of these things
will drop into the sewer, and so will the performance. And Intel
gets to sell some of its two-core processors (in the year 2025) -- a
huge money maker, I'm sure.

 
But NUC still lacks the versatility of the Raspberry Pi. So who is
going to buy these boxes, and why?

  Well, as I mentioned elsewhere, I might buy a 'NUC' to replace an old
(sort of) 'desktop' (actually a laptop in a drawer with external
display/keyboard/mouse, currently Windows 10, 'cannot' run Windows 11,
is already long in the tooth (teeth?)).

  They're small, quiet (ours sits in the living room), relatively
inexpensive, offer sufficient connectivity and are somewhat upgradable.

  Why? Because they run (and are supplied with) Windows (11).

  But 'NUC's - or in general 'Mini-PC's - are indeed a small market,
especially compared to laptops, but also compared to 'desktops' and
'All-in-One's. But they do have their uses.

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