Waay back in the day.. 286 12mhz with 1mb ram and a 10mb RLL drive. Setting the jumpers on the drive controller block was a nightmare that I still have. I think there were 16 or 32 pins and all the jumpers had to be just right or no dice (no drive). Further along I had a 40mhz Cyrix 4x86 I think, with 4mb ram and a Trident VGA 256 color card. I remember the ram being old school block chips and not SIMM modules. It's been a long time, so I could be mistaking the memory type between mobos. Was a great 3.11 machine for the time.
As a musician myself, who has also been taught by music instructors over the years, I find this idea strange. Musicians are artists. They are also not beholden to market trends. Music instructors tend to be picky about who they accept when they choose their students.
Music is also a person to person thing. Those who are truly serious about learning will choose a person to person connection.
This is an interesting case of trying to quantify a subjective subject. Music is an art. It's hard to quantify. Musicians (mostly instructors in this case, then a bit later the students) will most likely shy away from this form of making a commodity of something that is inherently personal and expressive.
This model is mostly likely going to fail not because of the numbers, but because of the subject at hand.
This is an interesting case study. And it makes sense, the numbers prove that it's not viable. The fact that it's not viable isn't the numbers, however.
(Before anyone gets snarky about substituting an HP for a true custom build... it was my money not hers and she's happy, so I did save $1500 in the deal. That makes my wallet happy) :)
Used to love Fry's in Renton. Was great to go down and see what they had and browse all the items and options. I went to buy a new Ryzen build for my stepdaughter after the old AMD bulldozer I donated to her bought the farm (turned out to be the video card, all other parts recycled into my other ancient AMD bulldozer. Long story short, I had $2500 in my pocket to spend on this build so we could build it together. The MOBO shelves were empty. So were the vid card shelves. I walked out with 50 cents worth of shrink tubing for a different project. Told the cashier "you just lost a $2500 sale". She was indifferent. Stopped at costco on the way home and found an acceptable HP gaming machine for ~1000. The fire for a big build was gone, but the step daughter is happy. It's truly sad. I used to love ComputerStop and HDNW back in the Microserf days. I'm also of the point of view that I don't want to order thousands of dollars of parts without holding them in my hand in the store. Gen X here. We're the last to appreciate that experience I think.
(Before anyone gets snarky about substituting an HP for a true custom build... it was my money not hers and she's happy, so I did save $1500 in the deal. That makes my wallet happy) :)