Yah but you can just buy that. You don't need to waste your time sucking up to the sales rep, and if you did you could go get another, just as powerful a system from someone else.
This is my least favourite part of luxury brands: the bloody sales reps. They are so awful. Full of themselves, trying to make you feel so small and insignificant. Yes, I know there is a reverse psychology to the whole thing.
The bags aren't special high-quality bags. They're just bags. Even if they were made of tougher material, Sam Vimes Boots Theory doesn't apply at this massive price difference.
Their main purpose is showing off that you schmoozed the sales rep - nothing at all like how a computer works. "Check out this super rare thing I managed to get" does happen occasionally, like Intel Larrabee graphics cards - but only occasionally.
I mean, while I'm not in the market, I gather it was getting that way for high-end Nvidia cards during the crypto mining bubble if you wanted to get them at MSRP; I assume that is also difficult today with all the genAI stuff.
