My rebirth is different

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"Yes, the Internet industry is so promising and makes money so fast, why do you want to do the computer business? Isn't the computer business dead?"

"Mr. Fei's ideas are often unconstrained. Could it be that the personal computer business is not as bad as we think, but there are big business opportunities hidden..."

"Let's see his next move. Hehe, I'm very worried about companies in the computer industry. According to Mr. Fei's style, every time he enters a new industry, he wants to subvert the entire industry."

Everyone in the Internet and PC circles widened their eyes, ready to see what the hell Yu Wenfei was up to.

Good Internet companies don't do it, and suddenly spend so much money to make complete computers.

Of course, at this time, everyone still doesn’t know about Yuwenfei’s plan for informatization benefiting the people, and that plan can only be seen by some high-level people.

If the plan is made public in the future, it will probably cause an "earthquake" in the industry...

Chapter 673 A gap of more than 200 million

Although IBM has not yet been won, the preparations for 5000 million Huimin computers can already start.

Lenovo Group naturally has to take on this burden.

Therefore, Yu Wenfei stayed in the capital for two days just to discuss this matter with senior brother Yang Yuanqing.

Yang Yuanqing also officially became the president of the new Lenovo Group, in charge of the computer business.

"This Huimin computer is what I envisioned. The configuration must be able to meet the daily needs of the family, such as watching videos, surfing the Internet, and playing games. If possible, try to use a unified configuration, so that if you purchase components in batches, you can The price has been greatly lowered and the cost has been reduced. The pressure on maintenance and after-sales in the future will also be much less.”

Yu Wenfei put forward his request.

As for computers, Yang Yuanqing is obviously more expert. After hearing this, he frowned and said, "Mr. Fei, if you just watch videos, listen to songs and surf the Internet, the configuration doesn't need to be very high. But to play games, the requirements for configuration are much higher. .In my opinion, it is still necessary to distinguish between high-end and low-end models, so that consumers can buy according to their needs, and there will be no performance waste.”

Yu Wenfei was kind, nodded and said: "That's okay, then set two models for high and low, with as few models as possible, so that we can achieve large-scale procurement, and our cost pressure is very high."

"In the past few days, I have asked engineers to come up with two sets of configurations. One is a high-end computer, which is positioned as a gamer's computer. The other is a low-end computer, which can also meet the needs of home entertainment and Internet access. You can take a look at it, Mr. Fei. If there is no problem, I will contact the parts manufacturers as soon as possible, because the quantity we need is too large." Yang Yuanqing said, taking out a document and handing it to Yu Wenfei.

After meeting Yu Wenfei in the Devil's City last time, he started to prepare for this matter when he came back.

Building a branded computer is not as simple as everyone thinks. Although most of the components are purchased off-the-shelf, it still takes a lot of money to make the performance of this computer stable enough and balanced enough. Very thoughtful.

First of all, according to product positioning, technicians select the most suitable and cost-effective model from a variety of components on the market, and then make a test machine first.

After various stability tests, pressure tests, etc., the performance and stability of the assembled test machine reached the desired effect, and then targeted optimization was carried out, and finally the project was formally approved for batch procurement.

This is only from the perspective of products. If it is related to market research, user needs, and even industry development trends, it will be more complicated.

Yu Wenfei took a look and saw that there were two sets of computer configuration lists inside.

The first set, tentatively named "High-End Gaming Computer".

The main configuration is AMD Athlon XP 2200+, memory 512MB, graphics card ATI R9550, hard disk 80G.

17-inch flat-screen display!

This kind of configuration was relatively high in 2003, enough to handle all the games on the market. The market price of branded computers with similar configurations was generally around [-].

Of course, if we only talk about the cost price, and if it is purchased in the order of tens of millions of units, the cost can be reduced to about 500 yuan.

The second set, tentatively named "Video Entertainment Computer", belongs to the low configuration.

主要配置为赛扬4 1.7G，内存256MB，显卡GF4 MX440，硬盘40G。

The same is a 17-inch flat-screen display!

This configuration can smoothly surf the web, watch movies and videos online or through the CD-ROM, and general games can also handle it.

The market price needs to be [-], and the cost price can be reduced to about [-].

…………

In addition, according to Lenovo's estimates, among the two configurations, low-end computers must be the most popular, while high-end computers account for at most two percent of sales, which is not bad.

Therefore, when purchasing, we will purchase according to the requirements of 4000 million low-end units and 1000 million high-end units.

Yu Wenfei frowned after reading it. The price...is still too high!

Of course, compared to the market price, it is already very cheap.

However, a set of computers with a low configuration of [-] yuan and a high configuration of [-] yuan is still not affordable for most people.

And I originally planned to set the price to about 3000 yuan, so as to penetrate the psychological bottom line of consumers and let them buy it readily.

Therefore, let’s not talk about the high configuration, but the low configuration audio-visual entertainment computer must lower the price to 3000 yuan!

Ok……

The price of 2999 yuan is not bad.

But in this way, based on the cost price alone, you will lose 500 yuan for every computer you sell!

4000 million low-end computers, isn't it a loss of 200 billion...

In addition, if the price of high-end computers is calculated at 4000 yuan, each computer will lose 500 yuan, and 1000 million units will be a loss of 50 billion yuan.

The high and low ratios add up to a total loss of 250 billion!

After calculating this number, even Yu Wenfei felt his scalp tingling.

"Can the cost be reduced?" Yu Wenfei asked with a frown.

Yang Yuanqing showed embarrassment, shook his head lightly and said: "I guess it will be very difficult. In fact, even at this price, we still need to negotiate with major manufacturers."

"Okay! I'll figure out how to deal with the money. Go buy computer accessories as soon as possible, and try to lower the price as much as possible. Oh, by the way, can the production capacity keep up?" Yu Wenfei said again.

Although Lenovo Group has become the largest computer manufacturer in China and has the strongest production and assembly capacity, it is obviously more than enough when faced with a quantity of 5000 million.

But for this, Yang Yuanqing also had a plan long ago, and said with confidence: "This problem is not too big, and the production capacity may not be able to keep up with it in the initial stage, but with the introduction of these computers to the market, we don't need to build new factories. Ability can also be improved."

Yu Wenfei was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, and laughed.

Obviously, relying on Lenovo's own factory alone, it must not have such a large production capacity, and it would be too late to temporarily build a new factory.

but……

As Yang Yuanqing said, as long as the first batch of Huimin computers are launched on the market, there is no need to build a factory, and the production capacity can also be increased.

Because by that time, other brand computer companies will not even think about having sales!

Their factory is also idle, so it will be fine to place an order for them directly at that time.

Moreover, in front of Huimin Computer, other brand companies can't fight a price war if they want to, because they are really not of the same order of magnitude.