Note that the price is mostly due to market segmentation, in your case most of it by the laptop vendor (of course some for Intel, but not that much compared to

Note that the price is mostly due to market segmentation, in your case most of it by the laptop vendor (of course some for Intel, but not that much compared to the laptop vendor) Xeon with ECC are not that overpriced compared with similar Core without. Likewise, RAM sticks with ECC are cheap to produce (basically just one more chip to populate per side per module). Likewise soldered RAM would simply add maybe $10 or $20 of extra chips.