That is true, but I'm seeing that spreading into the non-Apple world as well. It's as if the industry realized that people just don't do many hardware upgrades

That is true, but I'm seeing that spreading into the non-Apple world as well. It's as if the industry realized that people just don't do many hardware upgrades to laptops. Desktop space is a whole different story, though. Although the resale value on the Apple stuff seems to hold up a bit. I've had friends upgrade to a newer machine for the price they would have paid for a PC just by selling the old Mac. I suspect that too will slowly change as time goes on. (Was just looking at eBay for example - I could sell the Mac Mini that I have and only had about a $100 loss on it. I bought it almost two years ago now.)