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Maybe someone from framework or knowledge of this area can explain this, but I'm a bit baffled by the price difference between the prebuilt and DIY editions. L
by mschild 3y ago
Maybe someone from framework or knowledge of this area can explain this, but I'm a bit baffled by the price difference between the prebuilt and DIY editions.
LinusTechTips recently did a tour of one of the assembly stations in Taiwan. The DIY editions are fully assembled, tested, then disassembled, and put into packages. Considering that DIY has an additional labour intensive step, how come they're so much cheaper? Shouldn't the prebuilt ones be cheaper because they have less labour involved?
https://youtu.be/7nXVJBGowmY&t=10m33s https://youtu.be/7nXVJBGowmY&t=10m33s
- nrp 3y agoThe DIY Edition price is without memory, storage, and operating system, which are included in the pre-built versions. The memory, storage, bezel, and Input Cover that are temporarily installed into DIY Edition systems get cycled back through the line at the factory and reused repeatedly. If you order memory and storage as part of a DIY Edition configuration, those are new modules specific to your order that get added to the package at our fulfillment center. This means that we can enable thousands of different orderable DIY Edition configurations while only having a handful of unique configurations leaving the factory.
- aidenn0 3y agoDIY comes with no RAM, storage, or OS.
- anonymous_sorry 3y agoI configured a DIY edition with essentially the same specs as the pre-built version. The price differential was pretty close to the cost of the windows licence (which I don't need).
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