Parts alone cost ~$4,500 but Ghost's Core AI PC sells for $3,499 — where's the catch?
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-10-06
ziwenxu broke down Ghost Core's pricing: the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell + AMD Ryzen 5 alone sell for about $3,400, plus 64GB DDR5 ($1K) and a 1TB NVMe SSD ($250) — roughly $4.5K in parts for a $3,499 machine. BLUECOW009 predicts the launch will run into problems once units ship.
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