Of course you’re right; low cost is the main selling point of these classes of computers, secondary to basic functionality beyond booting to desktop. It almost

Of course you’re right; low cost is the main selling point of these classes of computers, secondary to basic functionality beyond booting to desktop. It almost feels like the low end tech is just a grab bag of cheap spare parts to keep the assembly lines hot between higher profit margin product runs. But most of these weird third party PCs aren’t made by well-known OEMs, so what is really going on here? How do these smaller OEMs make money?