I wonder how performance compares to the SiFive Unmatched.  I'd like to see it tested by phoronix.  The SiFive Unmatched was too slow to be usable, and RISC-V excels mostly at super low power situations rather than performance.  If they got reasonable desktop performance to the level of a raspberry pi 3+ or so, I would be happy to buy one. 

 yes $ price n perf matters finally 
2nd hand n old market is full of X86 n amd64 boards 95% dominance
good 2 see RISC-V making appearance at least