It seems kinda... awful? Why windows 10 for a tablet? Why a tablet and not a laptop form factor? Why make it ginormous so that you "build it yourself"? Why windows 10 for such a low power machine...
With the heat sink removed, it's obvious that there won't be any upgrades in Kano PC's future—just as we'd suspected, everything is soldered onto the board. You're gonna have 64GB eMMC and 4GiB of RAM, and you're going to like it!
It seems kinda... awful? Why windows 10 for a tablet? Why a tablet and not a laptop form factor? Why make it ginormous so that you "build it yourself"? Why windows 10 for such a low power machine to begin with?
Everything seems contradictory. The only explanation that I can understand is that Kano is looking to sell this directly to schools. Then Windows 10 makes sense - you can just add them to your...
Everything seems contradictory. The only explanation that I can understand is that Kano is looking to sell this directly to schools. Then Windows 10 makes sense - you can just add them to your domain and manage them like any other PC they might buy. And it runs all the proprietary software they have purchased. And since they seem to be marketing it to be used by kids, a tough rugged case is a really good positive. It's also good that it has a replacable battery and you can easily yank out the speaker for classroom environments.
The thing that I don't understand is why it comes as a kit and has a clear back to it. I don't see anything you'd really be able to learn from the way they've designed it; all of the important chips are hidden by a giant heatsink. The labels don't even make much sense; one of them is for an RTC, but it appears to be fit right next to an unpopulated section of the board. It doesn't even look like there is any kind of raw I/O breakout. I can't think of any reason why this should be sold assembled, especially when most of the assembly has already been done for you.
It seems kinda... awful? Why windows 10 for a tablet? Why a tablet and not a laptop form factor? Why make it ginormous so that you "build it yourself"? Why windows 10 for such a low power machine to begin with?
Just look at this thing (picture from the article): https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_20200716_174358-1440x1080.jpg
It's virtually unusable as a tablet, forget a tablet with a keyboard as a laptop replacement.
Everything seems contradictory. The only explanation that I can understand is that Kano is looking to sell this directly to schools. Then Windows 10 makes sense - you can just add them to your domain and manage them like any other PC they might buy. And it runs all the proprietary software they have purchased. And since they seem to be marketing it to be used by kids, a tough rugged case is a really good positive. It's also good that it has a replacable battery and you can easily yank out the speaker for classroom environments.
The thing that I don't understand is why it comes as a kit and has a clear back to it. I don't see anything you'd really be able to learn from the way they've designed it; all of the important chips are hidden by a giant heatsink. The labels don't even make much sense; one of them is for an RTC, but it appears to be fit right next to an unpopulated section of the board. It doesn't even look like there is any kind of raw I/O breakout. I can't think of any reason why this should be sold assembled, especially when most of the assembly has already been done for you.
I can't help but think I'd prefer ChromeOS over Windows.
I'm more shocked they aren't just using a Raspberry Pi. Isn't that what they started making when they started?