MINISFORUM V3: New model released with $999 launch price before rumoured Microsoft Surface Pro 10 launch

[Redaktion]

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

[Mr Majestyk]

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

[Everalm]

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?

[Neenyah]

Remind me never to buy from their memory supplier.

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

[123]

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.