The market segment of "people who are willing to pay a premium for computing devices" is pretty vast, isn't it? Most people would be fine with a $200 Chromeboo

The market segment of "people who are willing to pay a premium for computing devices" is pretty vast, isn't it? Most people would be fine with a $200 Chromebook, $500 bare-bones Windows notebook, or a garden-variety PC from 2007 but millions of us choose to pay more because we value the additional things that newer, more powerful computing devices give us. Lots of professionals and enthusiasts gladly pay large premiums for higher-spec gear, even when the improvements are quite small, because those small improvements are enjoyed over many thousands of hours of lifetime use. Perhaps more to the point, you already see gamers paying premiums for higher-specced memory to enable their overclocking and tweaking endeavors. So I definitely think there's a market of people who'd pay more for ECC...