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So can anyone who's looked at the specs explain where they're cutting corners? The aluminium body makes this look like a "premium" tablet, but at $250 I just don't see how that's possible/profitable. Even the 32 GB Nexus 7 was more than that at launch, and that had a plastic backing. Is the CPU and/or GPU on the low-end?

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It's Intel's money; they've been rumored to be doing whole BOM subsidization (so the x86 is almost zero, and the non-Intel components are subsidized too).

This is how INTC booked a $1B loss on $1M revenue for mobile in the most recent quarter. Cynically I wonder if they just merged mobile with the revenue positive CPU business to better bury the bad news every quarter.

I've read that those Intel SoCs may cost negative dollars.

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