> http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2007/11/15/ce-6-0-for-hobbyists.aspx
> Just read this, seems to be interesting.
>
> The .NET Micro Framework 2.0 is also interesting.
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/bb267253.aspx
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/bb278106.aspx
>
>
> Regards,
> Xiaofan


This is good news and got me all excited, except that when I started to 
look for
a hardware development board, the majority of sites I found did not 
have prices
listed, and the ones that did, seem to start at around US $1500 and up.

For that price, I'd rather strip an older machine I have at home, for 
example a
Pentium D ~1.6GHz machine and develop on that.  One could go through the
trouble of putting CE on it, but why would the hobbyist really want to 
do that,
if the stripped pc already runs full copy of XP or Linux?

Some site out there does have a board for $104, but it's got a 386 cpu 
and iirc,
it's running at 33MHz.

So, for the price of a somewhat nice dev board, you can get yourself 2 
or 3 very
good full pcs and go to town on it.

The price seems to be ok, if your company is going to pay for it and you'll be
doing real work and over time the company's investment will be recouped, but I
don't see this as being very accessible to the average hobbyst, unless I'm
missing something here (and if I am, I'd like to hear it from you).

In my case I already have an MSDN license, so I get the SDK's and all of the
goodies, which the $1500 seems to include at least some of it.


-Mario

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