Why do desktops generally offer better value than laptops at similar price range?
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A desktop is generally easy to design and build.
If you look at the majority of desktops, they mostly use standard sized motherboards and standard components. Very few components are specifically designed for that particular PC, aside cosmetic things.
So they can acquire components at a large scale and will be cheaper.
Likewise, since a desktop is much larger and roomier, they can tolerate heat better, so you don’t have to spend a lot of R&D effort into cooling.
You can also use a lot of off the shelf peripherals like monitor, keyboard, ect…
Laptops, on the other hands, most of it is specifically designed for that laptop model. Sure, they use some standard components like memory and SSD. However, the motherboards are specially designed for that model of laptop. And they have to be designed to handle heat in a small package.
At the same time, the peripherals are also built
In, so there’s cost to design and implement those peripherals.
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