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Posted by 123

- May 21, 2024, 01:17:40

still ridiculously priced. the 32gb->16gb ram reduction sucks a lot as well since it'll neuter the APU which uses that ram as vram. why buy anything like this when you can get laptops with 4050/4060 for cheaper?! if your tablet/noteboook just has a singular APU (intel or amd) it should also come with a large reduction in price since you no longer have a stronger dedicated GPU. these prices are scams where they are selling APU only devices for $1200-$2000.

Posted by Neenyah

- May 20, 2024, 11:19:03

Quote from: Mr Majestyk on May 20, 2024, 02:55:20Remind me never to buy from their memory supplier.

You won't ever (again) buy anything from SK Hynix?

Posted by Everalm

- May 20, 2024, 10:51:02

It's called marketing, it has very very little to do with component costs.

For no particularly rational reason on various fora, YouTube posts etc a number of posters whined about how THEY wouldn't pay the price for a 32Gb RAM, high processor spec'd tablet unless it was xxxx (some arbitrary made up number without link to actual costs), in general 1K USD.

So Minisforum have taken a punt on dropping RAM to 16Gb, eaten a bit of the profit margin and voila, sub 1K USD.

Oh and have you seen the margin that Apple, Microsoft et-al put on RAM variety on their devices?

Posted by Mr Majestyk

- May 20, 2024, 02:55:20

16GB is worth $230, apparently LOL. Remind me never to buy from their memory supplier.

Posted by Redaktion

- May 19, 2024, 20:58:58

MINISFORUM has quietly snuck out a cheaper version of its AMD Ryzen-powered 2-in-1. Previously available with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, the new MINISFORUM V3 model sacrifices RAM for a $230 saving that drops it below $999.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MINISFORUM-V3-New-model-released-with-999-launch-price-before-rumoured-Microsoft-Surface-Pro-10-launch.839255.0.html