Huanyu's Demon God series was a high-end laptop business that Huanyu Technologies and Shenzhou started together.
Alright.
Although they said they were doing it together, it was actually Huanyu Technologies that started it alone.
At that time, Chen Yu suggested that they do it together with Shenzhou. However, Wu Haijun rejected the idea.
The reason for his rejection was very normal.
The domestic computer business had just started to develop and had been suppressed by foreign countries. Only Lenovo was doing better.
It was not easy for them to make a name for themselves in the netbook business. They should focus on netbooks.
It was not easy to make a high-end laptop. Even if they could make one, no one would buy it.
However, even though Wu Haijun did not want to do it, Chen Yu wanted to do it.
That was why the Huanyu's Demon God series was created.
This laptop was focused on high-end products.
However, when Chen Yu mentioned the Demon God series, Zhang Jianming seemed a little hesitant.
"Why, Brother Jian, you don't think highly of it?"
"I don't know what to say."
"What do you mean you don't know? What can't you say in front of me? Just say it."
Chen Yu also knew that many people in the internal department objected to the creation of this high-end laptop.
Among them, Wu Haijun, who was a professional in the computer industry, also objected.
Of course, he was not against the creation of high-end laptops. However, he felt that it could not be done now.
It would take at least five years to create high-end laptops.
However, Chen Yu could not wait.
Five years later, it would be too late.
"We have done some market research. Although our Demon God notebook has good performance and looks stunning, the price is too high. I think the market will not accept it."
"What else?"
"There is also the high-end laptop series. We have IBM's Thinkpad, the Alien laptop, and the Apple laptop. We do not have an advantage in this area."
One was that there was not a big market.
Another was that the competitors were very strong.
It was too difficult to launch a high-end laptop business.
This was probably the reason why Wu Haijun did not want to enter the market so soon.
Who did not want to be in the high-end business?
However, it was not something that could be done even if one wanted to be in the high-end business.
It wasn't just technology that mattered. What mattered more was the market and competitors.
Of course, Huanyu Technologies would handle the technical aspects.
Laptops and desktop computers didn't have much of a difference in technology.
For the time being, most of the components were produced by other manufacturers, such as chips, memory, motherboards, and so on.
As long as he added these high-performance parts together, it would be impossible for him not to be high-end.
However, the laptop also had a problem with heat dissipation, which was more complicated than the desktop model.
However, it wasn't particularly difficult.
After Huanyu Technologies spent a lot of money on research and development, the heat dissipation problem was mostly solved.
"You have a point."
Chen Yu nodded in agreement with Zhang Jianming's concerns. "But how will we know if we don't launch it?"
Zhang Jianming opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end, he knew that it was useless.
Once Chen Yu had decided on something, it was basically very difficult to change his mind.
Moreover, the things that Chen Yu saw clearly seemed to be faintly indicating that he was moving on the right path.
…
A few days later, Huanyu Technologies held a new product launch.
The Demon God Notebook was also shown to the world for the first time.
The Demon God Notebook was Huanyu Technologies' most high-end laptop.
It used Intel's newly released Core First Generation processor.
Apparently, this processor hadn't been released on a global scale yet, but Huanyu Technologies was the first to acquire it.
4GB of memory, paired with 2GB of MSI graphics.
It used a super large 17-inch display.
In terms of configuration, it could be said to be the highest among high-end laptops.
Especially the 17-inch display.
The average laptop's display was about 14 inches, the larger ones were 15 inches, and the largest was less than 16 inches.
However, the Demon God Notebook increased the size of the display to 17 inches.
With the 17-inch display, it gave users a more domineering appearance.
In addition, there were colorful keyboard lights.
As soon as the Demon God Notebook was unveiled, it instantly stunned countless media outlets.
Even though there was a series of high-end laptops before, the Demon God series paled in comparison.
"F * ck, this laptop is too domineering."
"I've never seen such a beautiful laptop."
Some computer enthusiasts had stars in their eyes.
Chen Yu was very confident about this.
When he was building his products, he had always paid special attention to the appearance.
First, there was Huanyu Technologies' Pear MP3, then there was Pear mobile phone.
There was also a netbook built by Huanyu Technologies. The appearance had always been Huanyu Technologies' selling point.
Huanyu's Demon God Notebook was enough to capture a lot of people's hearts with its appearance alone.
However, with such a high configuration and such a low cost, the price of the Demon God series was also shocking.
The price started at 17000.
When such a price was announced, it also made the professionals and enthusiasts cry out in surprise.
"17,000. F * ck, this is even more expensive than IBM's."
"Not only is it more expensive than IBM's, it's more expensive than the Alien computer."
"It's more expensive than Apple's laptop."
In addition to having high-end performance, high-end computer brands generally had to have high-end branding.
Therefore, IBM could create a high-end brand.
Apple could create a high-end brand.
Lenovo couldn't. They could only buy IBM's Thinkpad as their high-end laptop.
Dell couldn't either. They could only buy the Alien computer as their own high-end brand.
In the true high-end sense, everyone only recognized IBM and Apple.
As for why?
This was because of history.
One was the pioneer of personal computers.
The other was the pioneer of personal laptops.
Their contributions to the computer industry were not something that other computer companies could compare to.
No matter how impressive other computer brands were, in terms of brand value, they couldn't surpass IBM and Apple.
Therefore, the media wasn't surprised that Huanyu's Demon God Notebook entered the high-end market.
Any computer company wanted to enter the high-end market.
However, if you entered the high-end market to compete for the price-quality ratio, everyone might be able to accept it.
If you had the same configuration and performance, and you were cheaper than them, there might be some market.
However, if you had the same configuration and performance, you were more expensive than them?
Then please?
Please give me a reason not to buy IBM.
Please give me a reason not to buy Apple's laptop.
Please give me a reason not to buy the Alien computer.
"The price is too high. I think the Demon God Notebook will fail."
"I think so too."
"What a pity. It's such a domineering computer."
After the price was released, a series of industry insiders thought so.
Even if there were some laptop enthusiasts who would buy it, there weren't many who bought it.
Of course, there were also people who thought that Huanyu's Demon God Notebook series might not be about making money.
They were just trying to increase Huanyu's brand value.
He just wanted to prove to the world that they could also make high-end laptops.
If that was the case, then it was understandable.
However, Chen Yu didn't just want to increase his brand value. More importantly, he wanted to increase sales.
Without sales, it was purely to show off. It was useless.
Without sales, it couldn't produce any commercial value.
Moreover, Chen Yu dared to raise the price despite Foxconn's pressure because he was optimistic about the Demon God Notebook.
As long as the Demon God Notebook sold well, with the high price of the Demon God Notebook, their OEM salary could be increased by a few hundred.
However, it seemed that this time, Chen Yu's plan failed.
Although many people thought that the Demon God Notebook was amazing and tempted many people.
However, the price of 17000 RMB scared away 99% of the users.
"Boss Chen, this is the number of Demon God Notebooks that we've sold in the past few days."
Zhang Jianming awkwardly handed a set of data to Chen Yu.
Chen Yu threw it aside and didn't look at it.
Did he still want to look at it?
He had been keeping an eye on the number of Demon God Notebooks sold in the past few days. He knew very well how many were sold.
In addition, from the feedback from the media and the market, Chen Yu also knew that the Demon God Notebook only won good but not good sales.
"Brother Jian, it seems that dota is about to start a global championship."
Suddenly, Chen Yu asked.
"Uh …"
Zhang Jianming didn't know why Chen Yu suddenly asked about dota, but he still said, "Yes, this is the first global dota championship that we've organized."
In fact, this wasn't the first one.
Before WCG
In the past, dota held world-class competitions.
However, WCG was WCG. WCG was a comprehensive competition, and it was organized by Korea.
Although WCG was okay, Chen Yu felt that he could organize a competition that was even more popular than WCG.
Even if this competition only had dota competitions and nothing else.
Although this seemed impossible.
In fact, it wasn't impossible.
WCG didn't become more popular as time went by. Instead, it slowly lost its influence.
This was related to the games in WCG gradually losing their vitality.
For example, Blizzard's Warcraft.
With dota, would there still be a need for Warcraft?
Another example was Counter-Strike.
Although Counter-Strike was good, its popularity wasn't particularly high.
In the future, if Huanyu Technologies created a Crossfire, Counter-Strike would be finished.
As for Delta and Starcraft, there weren't many players left.
"How much is the prize money?"
"One million RMB."
"One million RMB for the finals?"
Chen Yu asked.
"Yes."
"Is one million too low?"
"Boss Chen, this is currently the highest prize money in the global gaming industry. Moreover, this one million seems to have been proposed by you. "
"Damn, how long ago was that?"
Chen Yu suddenly remembered the one million RMB prize money he mentioned at the Battle League Internet Cafe.
At that time, in order to promote dota, when Chen Yu said one million RMB, everyone was excited.
However, the world was constantly developing. One million RMB was considered high before, but now, Chen Yu didn't find it attractive.
"One million won't do, it's too low."
Chen Yu shook his head.
"How about two million?"
Zhang Jianming suggested.
"Why are you so stingy? How about this, we'll increase it by ten times, ten million."
"Ten million?"
Zhang Jianming was stunned. "Ten million, Boss Chen, isn't it too much?"
"More than ten million? Any of our businesses are worth more than ten million. Oh right, the naming rights for our Demon God's Notebook … "
That was right.
What Chen Yu wanted to do was to use this dota global competition to promote his Demon God's Notebook to the world.
(End of chapter)
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