Everyone have windows licence nowadays. I dont need seperate windows for my desktop, laptop,htpc and this nuc. Also, in India majority of consumers don't buy windows until or unless it's comming for free. So, if you include the cost of windows and and say well 25% cost is for the windows. I don't buy that argument.
Secondly, OEM players give windows home edition etc almost for free. They have there own internal contracts which cost them next to nothing. There is no way I an going to pay that amount for additional windows.
The Ram and 500GB hardisk aren't as costly as you are making it sound. Even if we take your example 9k for barebones+5-6k for hardisk and ram. That comes to 14-15k. And I might even get better 1tb for Rs500-600 extra.
The amount they are asking is atleast 20-30% premium and justifying it with additional windows. Which is ridiculous.
Also, nowadays you can easily get better performing laptop and tablets at that range that even includes a additional screen. I don't see any point in releasing them from marketing perspective other than what I have mentioned in my previous post.
Well,OEMs don't get Windows(other than Windows 8.1 Bing subsidized and made free for 7" tabs and subsidized for 9" ones) for free necessarily always,certainly not all and not all versions.Even in contract it is subsidized a lot but not free in most versions.Whether you buy Windows or not is again an individual choice.
Yes in many cases people or businesses can already have licenses and having a preinstalled Windows won't matter,they should prefer barebones or DIY.
Many would be satisfied with a barebone SFF and a distro to go with it.
Simply check out the online stores and compare with other SFF units...you will find many ones costlier than this and some priced according to their specs.
Even by your own estimation you have reached 14-15k without OS.Also
whenever things come preinstalled/preconfigured they are generally pricier relatively than DIY.There are many who won't go DIY route unlike many of us here and just get the preconfigured ones.And this estimation quite possibly be off if the SKU used in the NUPC is a different and a better one which is quite possible.A faster processor would add to the cost.So many of these SFF units have quite higher prices than their specs and quite a number of them are much higher priced than these units as well.Some of the chrome OS SFF boxes with 2GB RAM and 16GB SSD as storage are priced so much higher relative to their specs,also Vivopc prices have been higher...many such examples.
The point I made was neither about it's VFM factor nor about its appeal to individuals.All I said was these don't seem to be priced that bad(as made out) when compared with many other such SFFs available online especially the preconfigured ones.Anyway,we would know exact specs with time perhaps and when it is actually sold at a price then it could be compared more properly with other SFFs.
Nupc doesnt really appeal to me as a cost effective solution atleast for our requirements.
its pricing isnt vfm at all for a business environment.
Neither to me at the moment.Notebook market is much bigger,market share of SFFs is very tiny relatively but yeah those tiny amount of people count for NUCs and other SFFs by intel,zotac,Gigabyte,Asus,etc..It's a newer market,there are some uses and of it and some people who will go for these units.
There hasn't been lot of AMD chips involved in such SFFs(only a few) but it's quite possible that with newer APUs,many of their chips also are used in similar units much wider than they have been before.
