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> The vendor will also have to be willing to “freeze” the configuration of the laptop for at least one year.

This is one of the most important points. The speed at which laptop vendors are releasing new SKUs is staggering. I know the whole supply chain is to blame, but apart from a few models, the number of different SKUs is way too high.

>>Aissen+(OP)
Simply put, they are trying to hit every gap in the market because their products are what economists like to call fungible. There is simply not enough to distinguish between them.

This is why Apple can sit with just a few models year after year, because they are the sole vendor of OSX/MacOS.