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I can't imagine the low end materials actually save that much cost anyway.

There's a tremendous amount of Bill-of-Materials inflation where a part that cost $5 more translates to $50 retail price increase when the actual work and engineering cost is exactly the same. This is one of the terribly annoying facts of product design, the incredible premium you have to pay for good parts that don't actually cost very much at all.

I wonder if it’s less about price and more about supply chains. Are there enough manufacturing capacity to allow every laptop maker to secure enough supply?

In advance of the neo’s release, Apple probably invested billions in ensuring the supply chain was ready.

Are there really 70 percent srgb laptops at $600?

That sounds great and like capitalism is working for once in terms of increased competition causes companies to produce more for less