And yet in the not too unrecent past, businesses where willing to spend a considerable premium on hardware that came with the promise that similar configuration

And yet in the not too unrecent past, businesses where willing to spend a considerable premium on hardware that came with the promise that similar configurations would still be available two years later. (Also, when was the last time you saw the state of the art "racing"? Reducing the update cycle to meaningful increments is the only way to keep the interest in new generations high without getting lost in pointless novelty features because you just got to fill that annual presentation somehow)