Quote Originally Posted by 3dcandy View Post
3000G more than acceptable for Win 10. The cpu is not what makes Win 10 great, decent ram both in size and speed, a decent nvme boot ssd and acceptable gpu are far more important than cpu as most people at a minimum will go for quad core. With the SBC's Win 10 struggles more because the gpu's are weak than the CPU in a lot of ways but then they don't have decent amount of cores or memory to help out.

Again I'll say it - £300+ for a small board setup is never going to happen when a Pi is a fraction of that price and you can run a free distro and do 90% work for 25% cost
Pi4s are great, but IMO they fall short of 90% of a good experience. They're fine for a lot of stuff, but the modern web is just too bloated for them - a more expensive SBC with newer and shinier ARM cores would help a lot

Quote Originally Posted by Core2Extreme View Post
I wouldn't expect AMD to dedicate 7nm space to an SBC chip - they can make a lot more money with their desktop and mobile Ryzen chips and Epyc.

But they could have some interesting options at 12nm, where there's likely to be more fab space. The 1600AF was Zen+ based, and retailed for $80 with 6 cores. Cut that down to two or four cores, lower the clocks for thermals, and you might be able to get a Ryzen-based SBC for a price that is is compatible with the category.
It doesn't need a custom chip from AMD, just one of their laptop APUs with the "embedded" branding stuck on it