I'm in the same boat as you, but I can understand why, based on the market: You can buy a cheap powerful phone because there's a market for it. The margins are

I'm in the same boat as you, but I can understand why, based on the market: You can buy a cheap powerful phone because there's a market for it. The margins are in the scale of the consumer market. However, there isn't as much a market for a generic "beige-box" cheap CPU. It's one of the difficult realizations of being a techie: the kind of undifferentiated, cheap, flexible box we want just doesn't carry itself as a product.