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by nkrisc 365 days ago
Wait until you find out the BOM for every device costs less than the retail price.
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Sure, but the retail price of a ASUS E410 laptop (some celeron, 4gb ram, 64gb storage) is currently $159 on bezos' website.

So for the same price, I either get some small gadget that is horrible to actually use (just try scrolling through tens of pages on this), or a full featured laptop (yes, performane-wise it sucks, but less than the gadget) and just run gEdit fullscreen. Keyboard included.

I’m sure with the volume of products that ASUS produces they can really lower costs due to economy of scale.