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Is it just me or do the hard drives on this thing seem weirdly expensive? The RAM is the same price as System76, but it's $999 for a 1TB NVMe drive vs $335. An
by showerst 8y ago
Is it just me or do the hard drives on this thing seem weirdly expensive? The RAM is the same price as System76, but it's $999 for a 1TB NVMe drive vs $335.
Any idea for the reason on that? Otherwise it would be price comparable to a darter or galago pro.
- woodrowbarlow 8y agomight be a premium for drives with open-source controllers.
- beatgammit 8y agoHuh, I didn't think about that. I know they do open boot loaders, but I just figured they'd leave the drive alone. Afaik, even Richard Stallman doesn't care about drive firmware, but I could be wrong there. But that is a valid reason. I've thought about buying a Librem laptop, but the price always turned me away. I know part of this is scale issues, but it feels bad to pay 2x more for something with worse performance, and the hardware switches and open boot firmware don't seem like enough to justify it. But I guess they won't be able to drop prices until they get enough volume, so maybe that's the answer.