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At a $188 price point. An addition 4GB of memory would probably add ~$10 to the cost, which is over a 5% increase. However, that is not the only component they cheaped out on. The linked unit also only has 64GB of storage, which they should probably increase to have a usable system …

And soon you find that you just reinvented a mid-market device instead of the low-market device you were trying to sell.

4GB of ram is still plenty to have a functioning computer. It will not be as capable of a more powerful computer, but that comes with the territory of buying the low cost version of a product.

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uis@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If they wanted it to be as cheap as possible, they could have installed Linux on it.

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nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Now let me present you the laptops with 2GB of RAM still being sold here in Brazil: zoom.com.br/…/notebook-multilaser-legacy-cloud-pc…

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- uis@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And it’s not on Linux! Wow. Sounds so horrible.
  
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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
At that point you gotta wonder if it can keep up with an $80 Radius berry Pi, especially if HP tries to shoehorn Windows into that

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- homura1650@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In addition to the raw compute power, the HP laptop comrmes with a:
  
  monitor
  
  keyboard/trackpad
  
  charger
  
  windows 11
  
  active cooling system
  
  enclosure
  
  I’ve been looking for a lapdock [0], and the absolute low-end of the market goes for over $200, which is already more expensive than the hp laptop despite spending no money on any actual compute components. And, at that pricepoint, the lapdock will also be of significantly lower quality than the cheap hp laptop.
  
  Granted, this is because lapdocks are a fairly niche product that are almost always either a luxury purchase (individual users) or a rounding error (datacenter users)
  
  [0] Keyboard/monitor combo in a laptop form factor, but without a built in computer. It is intended to be used as an interface to an external computer (typically a smartphone or rackmounted server).
  
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