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It would be more correct to claim the demand is artificial, in that the hardware is probably going to sit in a warehouse, depreciating for years before the data centers and power infrastructure are brought on line to use it.

But, I get where you're going with it.

Speculative bubbles are gonna speculate.

Some may even suspect a deliberate motive to kill personal computing to force cloud adoption, but hey... What would they know.

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The value is in the form factor, thermals, lower power draw, support, and novelty.

Those may not be valuable to you, but they will be enough to sell out this production run.

The paper specs are very close to DIY builds, but smaller, quieter, and cooler.

The performance specs are not equivalent, you're paying a performance tax for the aforementioned qualities.

Epdt: The SSD upgrade is overpriced, by any measure, and only be justified if you desperately want one and are willing to pay a few hundred more bucks to increase your odds of getting one now.

Well, unless you have no extra storage, and speculate that SSD prices will continue to increase by the time you need >512.