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"Electronics are not commodities -- you get value out their use. Electronic devices would have to fall in price enough to exceed the value of having and using t
by danenania 15y ago
"Electronics are not commodities -- you get value out their use. Electronic devices would have to fall in price enough to exceed the value of having and using the device."
So how much would computers have to fall in price every year before people stopped buying them?
- Duff 15y agoThe number depends on your cost structure. I can tell you that where I worked, we traditionally planned on keeping most servers in service for 40-72 months. When Nehalem processors came out, the economics shifted, and there was a financial case for retiring devices at 24-36 months and consolidating them into virtual machine clusters. Without that consolidation opportunity, we probably would have extended the lifecycle of our server longer to preserve cash in 2009.