Who is a more important market? 5 people that buy a laptop every 5 years, or 1 person that buys 1 laptop a year?
The person that goes to Best Buy to buy an "ultra value" laptop is not the same person that buys a $2000 laptop. And my guess is that $2000 laptops are more profitable to make than $100 laptops.
Individual enthusiast consumers are an incredibly small portion of the people who buy computers.
You're lucky if you can interest a computer manufacturer with the concerns of the consumer market as a whole, much less the tiny fraction known as enthusiasts. Most companies in hardware make their money on selling to people who buy a lot more than one machine at a time.
People always assume this and I can't help but wonder why? Just because the price is higher doesn't really say anything about the value of the spread between cost and price
