. I had a discussion further down the thread with someone about how awesome something like thunderbolt would be on it. He brought up the problem that there'd be no drivers but that more a problem with arm considering rpi 3 can run an almost full version of ubuntu. I mean drivers are obviously a problem with intel likely not wanting thunderbolt on arm and I'd imagine most modern external pcie has too much reliance on thunderbolt to be used easily on another brand new low support external pcie port. Anyway if windows full desktop arm with x86 emulation is remotely successful than that'd make arm desktop style devices like rpi and that version of windows 10 into an actaul consumer base that could possibly surpass Mac. And intel is already trying to stop x86 emulation so once it's actually out and on arm windows devices they'll hopefully drag their feet for serveral years on bringing thunderbolt to it. If someone would make an open source external pcie port and manage to get it supported on windows, then it'd be easy to put that on on an rpi and have an easier time with drivers. Though i do imagine that if thunderbolt ever gets on arm for windows that its only a matter of time 'til it gets on other arm os. Anyway my original idea was that i thought of was to make a hundred dollar version that runs a snapdragon 835 and has support for x86 on arm windows and at least inside windows that'd help with drivers a bit though as i later realised, while x86 arm windows should hopefully have all the driver's for thunderbolt and thunderbolt periphials, it won't be able to actually use thunderbolt 'til intel makes thunderbolt compatible with arm. Anyway another thing that a snapdragon 835 would do is allow for game cube emulation and I'd gladly pay 100 dollars for that, especially in a device as small and hackable as the raspberry pi. Like I'd either put it in a game cube or ps1 or 2 case or try to turn it into a hand-held or get two and have one in a nostalgic case and another as a hand-held since I've been dreaming of a game cube and ps2 capable handheld. If course for ps2 will have to wait several years because the major thing holding it back is the fact that software since the only one that supports arm is play! And we have to wait for them to be playable in the actual hardware. It's possible that when that happens that it'd also be playable on a snapdragon 835.of course fans of the gaming aspect like me might do that in a heartbeat but the biggest part of the rpi community is worried more about the open source and price aspect and that could make both the hundred dollar price point and windows likely a no go. Like x86 compatibility would be nice but most people who would own a pi would likely own a windows computer and some of those would likely install Linux on their windows computer and avoid windows like the plague as much as possible. I have two windows gaming pcs and have never been able to go without windows even before that even with Linux and I don't actually want windows on the pi just because i have too many better ways to access windows. I do want a pi based game cube hand-held though. Due to snapdragon not being completely open-source i doubt it'll ever come to pi. I also agree it's best for pi to completely focus on open-source.