[Shakahs]

Dell can sell you a workstation with dual CPUs, dual GPUs, 3TB of ECC RAM, and a combination of up to 8 NVMe disks or 10 SATA/SAS disks. And the entire thing (including disks) can be covered by an onsite warranty that will send a technician, with parts, to your location within 4 hours, 24/7, for up to 7 years.

You cannot get those specs, or anything near that warranty, from commodity desktop hardware.

[IntelMiner]

In some areas you could leverage "Amazon Prime Now" for 1-2 hour delivery on replacement computer parts

I did that back in 2016 when I needed to upgrade my GPU to play a new game after getting off work

[bobthepanda]

You still have to pay more for replacement parts though, which is not how warranties work

[fomine3]

Yes but is it matter if entire computer is 2x expensive?

Anecdote: In Japan, SanDisk sells "genuine" SD cards extremely expensive (about x3-x7 for US price). Importing SD cards from US (or buy from local importer, it's common) is makes sense even though it has no warranty.

[bobthepanda]

Things are a bit different if you are running IT for a large organization instead of buying your own computer though.

Generally speaking Amazon is not going to have 1000 of a specific computer part in a 2-hour delivery window. You could order different parts but then you now have increasing numbers of variations of setups and you don‘t want to be fixing lots of small unrelated problems than a widespread issue which has the same fix all the time.

And for corporations it is better to have the cost paid for upfront; it is expensive, and hard to get approvals for unexpected budget items.

[fomine3]

Fully agree. So even SanDisk can sell products in such price.