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Wow, so I guess people are buying new PCs and essentially scrapping them for parts? That's....... actually kind of funny
by tomc1985 7y ago
Wow, so I guess people are buying new PCs and essentially scrapping them for parts? That's....... actually kind of funny
- blaser-waffle 7y agoProbably not new PCs. But I know a lot of Enterprise-tier clients that do a 3-5 year refresh of hardware. And no shortage of business that fail or need to offload new-ish hardware. Rip out the HDDs, RAM DIMMs, etc. and resell as "new" for extra $$$.
- hakfoo 7y agoWhen I bought my present laptop, it was about $200 cheaper to order the min-spec (4G RAM/500G hard disc) and add aftermarket RAM and SSD upgrades than to buy it the way I wanted from the maker. I could imagine a firm that ordered 1000 units and did (or contracted out for) the same upgrades, now has 1000 unneeded 500-gig hard drives they can unload cheap.