At some point the market gets saturated. I personally have four laptops in my home all with different purposes. Since they are working fine and I don’t change anything they seem to last for a long time. When one does give up the ghost I will buy a replacement but as long as they do what I want done I don’t see any reason to buy a computer.
I agree. For most of us doing basic browsing and office programs, there’s little need of more performance. Hard drives were always a reliability issue but with SSDs that’s fixed too.