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The X2 Elite was announced last September and we still don't have a mini PC or laptops with 64GB of RAM available? It's been nearly 11 months! Yes, there is a RAM cost issue, and there has been an ASUS mini PC announcement no pricing or other info yet), but seriously, the execution of getting products into peoples hands is so poor - It tooks 6'ish months from announcement of X2 Elite to the availability of the first laptop. It would be much better to delay the product announcement rather than it being 6 months before a device is available as people are getting pissed. Rumour has it of a tweaked X2 chip in September, and we still can't find X2 product with last years announced chip, so disappointing. I was really hoping for a new laptop or mini PC with 64GB+ RAM after they promised devices with 128GB RAM.

Does anyone have insight into additional product availability with higher end specs? Seriously, I am keen, was all set to buy something serious after last years X2 Elite launch event but so little product available with so little variance in spec. <rant over>

I want to build a boot loader/basic OS in ASM before bootstrapping into C++ using Microsoft tooling only.

I have done so previously using open source tooling using the usual suspects gcc, ld, NASM, etc, but now want to use MASM/ML64, link, visual C, etc, I am hitting a number of issues due to multiple differences in output including PE/COFF vs ELF output, appropriate switches on the MS tooling, removing dependencies on c runtime etc. I have not found any basic samples on the web demonstrate (unlike for the open source toolset), and the AI tooling (which I really want to avoid as its a personal project) sends me in circles.

Has anyone been able to do this? Any pointers/skeleton projects that demonstrate how to bootstrap all the way to a C++ kernel would be amazing?