A Stimulating Discussion, This Price of Things Thing,,,,,
If you think about it, a motherboard has so many more chips, widgets, capacitors, do-dads, and what-nots, so why aren't they much more expensive than they are? Here I say, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
You're quoting prices on items, (VGAs), that are on, more or less, the cutting edge of development. Not everybody has, needs, or wants one of them. I figure even an integrated Intel GMA950 works beyond my wildest dreams for my needs. Well, discounting a little glitch here and there.
It would be interesting to determine how much more it costs to manufacture a Blu-Ray disc, than a DVD. This because a blank Blu-Ray costs at least ten USD, whereas a blank DVD can be had for twenty three cents. My math says that's a difference of FORTY times!
The ugly truth of supply and demand is this; if I develop a product then the first ones will be horribly expensive. Witness the original free standing DVD recorders at a thousand bucks each. Hey wait, if I call Newegg today I can get a DVD burner for my computer for about twenty five USD. Now where have I seen that 40 to 1 ratio before? Hint, see above.
The stark, cold, and ugly reality is this, I bring a product to market then, if enough people DON'T buy it, I stop building them. Witness HD-DVD. So, it's like this, "dude, you had to have it first, you paid your too much money and took your choice, what's the problem"? It's a lose, lose. Even if enough people buy it first, they pay forty times what it will be worth eventually, so that's a lose, lose also. So, it's like this, "dude, you had to have it first, what's the problem"? Always remember where you keep your wallet. Here's a clue, it's not next to your heart. LOL Methinks it's there for a reason. Still LOL
BTW, a 7200E is worth about $120.00 with free shipping from Newegg. So Nepal's price is still a tad uphill from there.
So here I sit, with my Emachine T-5026, and forty dollar Philips upsampling DVD player, grinning at my good fortune like a pig in s***, and being amazed at the quality. I amuse easily you say, without a doubt, and no doubt you can kick my a** at any video games around. To this I say, have mercy on a fool such as I.
Hey this is going to shock you, but milk comes from a cow, but is one of the most expensive drinks out there !?
Definately consumer demand
Kimsland old friend, I take it you haven't priced even rotgut whiskey recently.
Also. "definately" is spelled "definitely". I think they put "de" and "finite" together, thus producing a "neologism". That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. LOL
I'm running "No-Script", hence no "smilie" of any kind.
"De", means of or from in Latin. Well, in Spanish too.