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I don't think so. I tried to look up the price of CPU in my laptop, but it is not sold separately (it is soldered on the motherboard). The desktop version of th

I don't think so. I tried to look up the price of CPU in my laptop, but it is not sold separately (it is soldered on the motherboard). The desktop version of the same CPU, which has 50% higher score in Passmark benchmark, costs 25% of the price of laptop. RAM costs approximately 10% of the price. So RAM + CPU make only 35% of total price.

vladvasiliu 4y ago
Sure, but a desktop computer with 50% higher scores than a laptop with "laptop version of cpu" will cost less than the laptop (even counting a monitor), so I'm not sure that comparison holds. For example, an HP Elitedesk 800 mini (very small, so using SO-DIMMs and integrated everything - basically a non-portable laptop) will run you around 800 Euros, while the "equivalent" Elitebook 830/840 will run you 1500 euros. Specs are "similar", same generation mid-level i5, same RAM, same SSD. Main difference is the Elitedesk will have desktop-class CPU. Throw in a cheap HP screen (200 euro - Elitebook laptops have ridiculously bad screens, so that's fair), and you get to 2/3 the price of the laptop.