Cost of PC or Laptop

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Anonymous Poster #1	Cost of PC or Laptop 03/28/2011 3:13 AM
	which factors determines the cost of the laptop or PC?
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#1 Re: cost of RC or laptop 03/28/2011 4:15 AM
	Market forces. __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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Anonymous Poster #1	#2 In reply to #1 Re: cost of RC or laptop 03/28/2011 4:50 AM
	I need technical reasons please
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#4 In reply to #2 Re: cost of RC or laptop 03/28/2011 6:49 AM
	See #1 and #3. __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#8 In reply to #2 Re: cost of RC or laptop 03/29/2011 12:28 AM
	Technical reasons do not determine the sales price of a PC. See #1, above.
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#3 Re: cost of RC or laptop 03/28/2011 6:42 AM
	Maybe a 120GB hard drive costs more than a 60GB? Maybe a 1600x1200 screen costs more than 1024x768? Maybe a titanium case costs more than a plastic case? Maybe a fast graphics card costs more than a slow one? How much installed software comes with it? These esoteric technical reasons might have something to do with it.... __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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rsreedhar1987 Active Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: new delhi India Posts: 19	#5 In reply to #3 Re: cost of RC or laptop 03/28/2011 8:39 AM
	I feel the memory leads all the otherthings. I dont know why? If anybody knows please reply __________________ sreedhar.r
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jack of all trades Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 8777 Good Answers: 376	#6 Re: Cost of PC or Laptop 03/28/2011 2:17 PM
	I don't understand exactly what your question is, as the way you have asked it is just too simple and obvious. You found CR4 (using a computer) but do you not know that computer hardware and software is customisable like most products on the market (cars, clothes, food, accommodation, etc)? Can you please elaborate. __________________ jack of all trades
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kvsridhar Guru Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Temporarily at Ashburn, VA Posts: 2744 Good Answers: 164	#7 Re: Cost of PC or Laptop 03/28/2011 9:36 PM
	In most products, the raw material, the processing and the technology contribute towards the cost. i assume here that the overheads are included. Profit is what is made when the company prices its products based on what it can get from the market. Take Apple, its products are more expensive, not because their cost is more, but because they can get that price. When technology is new and the company has a monopoly for a while, it can get away with murder...eg: Solid state hard drives, Sony walkman when it came first.... If you divide the price by the weight, you get a cost/kg .. my Dell, bought 6 years ago, was Rs 30000/kg. As technology matured, and manufactured quantities went up, the cost came down, and today, it is about Rs 10,000/kg. What is the cost/kg of your car, bike, fridge, cooking range... ? __________________ Nothing worthwhile can ever be taught, it can only be learnt.
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