Re:Station X Linux Machines
by sandworm101 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @12:47PM
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Any company trying to make it's name in the Linux market has to field stuff at lower pricepoints. I can buy a perfectly good Acer netbook for 300$ and install Ubuntu in a matter of minutes. If you cannot do small and cheap, the thing that Linux can do better than anyone else, you aren't going to win over many people.
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The margins in the low end PC laptop market are so narrow that it's a crazy place to aim for if you're a small player.
Re:Station X Linux Machines
by sandworm101 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:34PM
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But people looking to test out a new company/os want cheap. They will come back later once confidant. Smaller/cheaper generally also means greater battery life.
But will they come back looking for something more expensive?
I'm not sure there's any money aiming for the market that buys cheap. On the other hand enthusiast vendors like e.g. PC Specialist in the UK have survived for many years selling PC's in the price segment these guys are going after, because frankly for some of the models you could survive as a small company on a few dozen a month, while you might have to sell 10x-20x as many units to make similar margins to cover salaries and sales costs for lower priced units.