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It's awesome that they're doing all this within the US but I tried to design an Oryx yesterday I just wanted a nice graphics card, 32gb of ram and the 1tb ssd a
by mevile 8y ago
It's awesome that they're doing all this within the US but I tried to design an Oryx yesterday I just wanted a nice graphics card, 32gb of ram and the 1tb ssd and it quickly approached Apple prices. I understand the underlying components aren't cheap but I don't think companies that aren't operating at Apple's scale, who has some of the brightest engineering hardware and software minds in the world, have any business charging close to $3k for a laptop for similar specs.
I'm guessing the cost is due to being based in the US. I just want a nice laptop for a reasonable cost, I'm not concerned where it's built. Where a laptop was made doesn't make any difference to how I use it or what it does for me. If System76 is close to Apple prices for similar specs I might as well just buy a Macbook Pro.
- cwyers 8y agoScale provides, well, economies of scale. If you want to buy from a smaller outfit, then expect to not get economies of scale.
- illumin8 8y agoThere is a reason Apple charges those prices. Components like 16GB dual channel DDR4 SO-DIMMs, Nvidia 1070GTX w/ 8GB RAM, 4K HiDPI/retina displays, and NVMe SSDs that can do 3500MB/sec. are not cheap. Here's an interesting exercise: Go to Newegg or Amazon and fill your shopping cart with all of the components you want in your system, then compare the price of all the components separately with the system price you get for a well engineered system that runs Linux flawlessly. If you are looking for 32GB of RAM and 1TB NVMe SSD in a laptop, you are by definition an early adopter, and should expect to pay an early adopter penalty. If you want the sub-$500 notebook you're going to get the technology that early adopters were buying a few years ago.