I think due to $100-$200 laptops floating around in the late 2000s, people started getting impressed with computers serving more than 4 years. Even back then,

I think due to $100-$200 laptops floating around in the late 2000s, people started getting impressed with computers serving more than 4 years. Even back then, you could get almost a decade out of a computer in some sort of capacity. Give it to the youngest kid or mom, they only play clicking games. To this day, I see people amazed that their $1000 laptop survived ~7 years. Meanwhile I have $550 laptops that are still being used for gaming(Minecraft/Steam) literally 9 years later. I think the root cause is that people only spent $1000 dollars on a laptop when it had a glowing logo on it, and were impressed that a $1000 laptop would last more than 4 years. To any other nerd, they knew that the SSD was the real game changer.