The latest edition of Boxed News reports on the $6,000 bar-mat computer Microsoft is selling … then spends the rest of the piece repeatedly pitching you on the lowest-end computers we could find.
Thin clients? Chromeboxes? Yeah, we got that.
https://boxed.news/2026/10/09/nvidia-surface-rtx-spark-dev-box
Fun thing I learned when working on this issue: Corel, the company best known for Painter and WordPerfect, made an ARM-based Linux computer nearly 15 years before Raspberry Pi did.
It was called the NetWinder. Corel sold it off almost immediately.
https://boxed.news/2026/10/09/nvidia-surface-rtx-spark-dev-box