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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by Tenoke on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:18AM (#30661962)
It's definitely true for PCs. At best you can get the same price for pre-assembled but usually it's more expensive.

Not sure about laptops though.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by bobthepanda on Sunday March 13, 2022 @02:42PM (#30664426)
Admittedly it’s been a while, but the last I checked crypto-driven GPU scarcity made it much harder and more expensive to build a gaming PC than to buy premade.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by sokoloff on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:29AM (#30662068)
I bought a Chromebook for $92 delivered to my door this winter. It’s definitely not the case there.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by ghaff on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:48AM (#30662306)
Realistically, you can't even really build your own laptop from scratch in the sense of buying a case, motherboard, etc. OK--maybe someone offers this--but it's hardly mainstream. And you can buy a Dell desktop for ~$800 and I'm sure I could find cheaper deals elsewhere. No, it's not an optimized gaming machine but most people don't have any use for that.
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