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astrodust on July 31, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199

Why is this thing priced like a Ferrari in a market filled with Fiats?

tinco on July 31, 2013 [–]

Because it's a Ferrari amongst Fiats?

antitrust on July 31, 2013 | | [–]

Not to be that annoying guy but:

"Ferrari S.p.A. is 90% owned by the Fiat Group."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat

I don't know what this means.

harrytuttle on Aug 1, 2013 | | | [–]

Bit of a bad analogy - they're both pretty unreliable cars as a whole!

astrodust on Aug 1, 2013 | | [–]

The Atom chip hardly crushes the latest ARM cores.

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