No. This is called the free market, where you get what you pay for. If you want top build quality combined with top performance you can have it right now, from a number of vendors. Race to the bottom does not mean that no one can create and successfully sell high end hardware, no, it means that in a fast advancing market a product ages relative to its competition. 4.5" screen at 960x540. dual-core CPU with low IPC with a cut down GPU. 1GB of low bandwidth DDR2 This has a new price ceiling of 169 Euros as of last week.