Yes because the desktop equivalent cost machine would be faster, no cpu locked at 30w or cut down gpu. Just like with a laptop.

It is expensive for a pretty low end machine but also so is everything now. And it does look nice and comes with a more console like experience out the box.

No one should be buying this thing based on performance alone, but it still ticks many other boxes

I would think the framework would be somewhere around twice the price per performance but we won’t know until release.

Seems like if you’re leaning framework a self build makes more sense. I don’t see the value proposition of a framework desktop if you’re technically literate enough to be on lemmy.