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If I bought my PCs from either MS or Apple I’d be worried about cost. Otherwise, nah.
It’s an obnoxious twist. From 2,000.00 dollar machines in the early 90s, to 200.00 ones in 2005, and now back to expensive.
But thankfully I can get good machines used and piece together whatever I need from home.
These new machines from both Apple And MS are utterly absurd in their prices, but they are more “pro-sumer” devices, so they weren’t designed for cheap-Os like me.
If you are saying MS or Apple, yes they are. My opinion is Apple shot itself in the foot with laptops. Too much money too little hardware. Microsoft is just too expensive.
I handled their Surface Book for the first time last week. My take was they are probably getting dropped all the time. The balance is way off because the keyboard is too light.
Most people don’t need computers these days
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PCs will be for businesses and dorks
I did upgrade the video card in a 6 yr old hand me down Dell and it does HD video just fine.
VirtualBox allows me to run the old software on the old OS's so I only need one computer.
Just what new features do I need?
I see no evidence of this
I’m not liking the MacBook/MacBook Pro price/performance ratio these days. I do my big work on a 27” retina iMac, and take it over remotely with a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12” tablet - trading in for an iPad Pro next year. I think that is the future, rather than taking the whole computing platform on the road and trying to make a small screen notebook do everything.
Don’t forget about the refurbished market. You can find some real bargains in hardware that’s two or three years old that has been refurbished to look and run like new.
My current PC was pretty high end when it was new. Way more than I’d pay. But with refurbishment, the price fell to be in line with a new medium high end PC.
As long as there is an operating system that runs a decent office suite and some games, I’ll continue to build a new PC every five years or so. The current ones I’m building cost between $450 and $1,000 depending upon the state of gaming graphics at the time.
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There are fewer of us left every day....
There are attempts to create new products that ARM tablets and phones can’t run. PC geaming is also doing quite well. And 5 even well maintained computers tend to die after 5-10 years.
The premise is pretty much nonsense.
There is a ton of value in any PC today. If you want more capability, in general you pay more. No surprise there...
The real beauty of the PC architecture is the ability to build your own machine, to your exact requirements. I think that’s the best value. I also think PC sales will pick up going forward, the less powerful gadgets can’t do the same job.
I've always advocated building my own PCs. If someone comes to me with a store bought PC and asks me to make it faster, I bump the memory to the max it can take and find the fastest processor. Usually that does the trick and people think I'm a wizard.
Bottom line, prices are going back up because people want computing power, not the latest PC gimmick that keeps them going back to the store for repairs.