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CONSUMER HARDWARE AFFORDABILITY

KEEP IT
CHEAP

Hardware Is for Everyone.

#KeepItCheap

Keep computing hardware accessible as AI and enterprise demand reshape the market.

Read the five principles

OUR FOUNDING MISSION

People need hardware they can afford to keep using.

Keep It Cheap advocates for affordable computer hardware, transparent prices, consumer ownership, repairability, and healthy market competition.

Students, families, independent creators, small businesses, and people learning on their own need access to computers they can afford to buy, maintain, and keep using. Those needs deserve a lasting place in decisions about the future of computing.

FIVE CONSUMER PRINCIPLES

What Keep It Cheap stands for.

  1. Make affordability a design goal.

    Evaluate hardware by what people can reasonably afford and how long they can use it. Lower cost should come with honest information about performance, quality, and limitations.

  2. Make prices understandable.

    Show the full purchase price and explain what buyers receive. State required recurring costs, support terms, and important limitations before a purchase.

  3. Respect ownership.

    People should be able to control, maintain, upgrade, and use the hardware they buy, including choosing compatible software.

  4. Support repair and longer useful life.

    Favor serviceable designs, useful documentation, replaceable parts where practical, and clear compatibility information.

  5. Protect meaningful choice.

    Support competition, interoperability, and fair comparison so buyers can choose among suppliers and switch when another product better meets their needs.

FOUNDING SUPPORTER / KITPRO HARDWARE

A movement people can hold KITPro to.

KITPro Hardware founded Keep It Cheap and is its founding supporter. KITPro is a commercial hardware effort. Keep It Cheap expresses consumer principles that can be applied to any hardware company, including KITPro.

KITPro intends to demonstrate those principles through competitively priced, validated hardware. Our first active development direction is KITPro Memory, which remains in Early Development.

This founding effort is organized by KITPro. It has no announced independent governing body, separate incorporation, or external supporting organizations.

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You do not need to buy anything to support this.

Share the principles. Ask manufacturers for clear prices, repair information, and compatibility evidence. Use #KeepItCheap to discuss what affordable, repairable computing needs to look like for you.

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