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Good point, re: RAM!

I don't know what the plan is, re: non-volatile storage. I guess you could plug in a USB memory stick (v. cheap), or use the PCIe headers.

Makes me wonder how cheap Intel could make a computer, if it really tried, though. I guess profit margins are the only thing stopping it from building something cheaper/better than the Rasp Pi.

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you can't use USB memory to replace RAM. USB memory has read speed of ~10MB/s, a 100MHz DDR2 RAM has read speed of 3200MB/s.

This product is of a different class. You can't have fancy I/O like Thunderbolt and USB3 and compete on price with RPi.

Unless I'm terribly misreading, he wasn't suggesting USB memory to replace RAM, but rather to replace a hard drive (or the SD Card on the RPi) ("re: non-volatile storage")

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