As this is our most requested video to date, we decided to put Ben, one of the Technical Analysts here at Star Labs in front of a camera and show you a brief...
No, it’s what you get when you want an insanely niche product with features 99.99% of the population considers massive downgrades that would make them hesitant to take the product for free.
Do you know what’s involved in making the tooling to manufacture a laptop that’s even moderately space effective? It takes a huge amount of work, and the 20 people on the planet who would tolerate using it if they had a gun to their head the whole time can’t cover it.
The people paying for the work to design the product you’re describing would lose hundreds of thousands in the best case scenario, and probably 7 figures. The people doing the actual work on the machines are already making subsistence wages in extremely low cost of living third world countries.
Developing products is expensive and takes a lot of time and resources.
For the nonsense he asked for? If every single person on the planet who was interested was completely immune to price, it would still take 5 figures bare minimum to break even, without making any money at all.
It’s not something most people would use if you put a gun to their head.
Are you willing to pay several thousand for a mediocre CPU and no dedicated graphics?
Because even then they don’t have a chance of making their R&D back.
I guess this is what we get when the cost of living is too high.
No, it’s what you get when you want an insanely niche product with features 99.99% of the population considers massive downgrades that would make them hesitant to take the product for free.
Right. It’s literally impossible for the people working on this to get paid less.
If they did, they would die.
Lol. 🤡
Do you know what’s involved in making the tooling to manufacture a laptop that’s even moderately space effective? It takes a huge amount of work, and the 20 people on the planet who would tolerate using it if they had a gun to their head the whole time can’t cover it.
I know that they can make less money and still live a higher quality of life than the vast majority of people on the planet.
Who? Who are you talking about?
The people paying for the work to design the product you’re describing would lose hundreds of thousands in the best case scenario, and probably 7 figures. The people doing the actual work on the machines are already making subsistence wages in extremely low cost of living third world countries.
Developing products is expensive and takes a lot of time and resources.
So… they couldn’t charge any less? This is the absolute lowest price they can charge and still break even?
They’re living paycheck to paycheck and surviving off of peanut butter sandwiches?
For the nonsense he asked for? If every single person on the planet who was interested was completely immune to price, it would still take 5 figures bare minimum to break even, without making any money at all.
It’s not something most people would use if you put a gun to their head.