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You need to be rich to afford a new computer every 3 years?
by cglace 3y ago
You need to be rich to afford a new computer every 3 years?
- brucethemoose2 3y agoAt Apple's prices, yeah. I sit on desktops for 5 years+ with modest opportunistic upgrades, and I consider that extravagant. I think people forget that $4k+ for a computer is Quadro workstation territory.
- cglace 3y agoI guess if you are paying 4k+ for your computer it makes sense to push out your next purchase. I'm usually paying ~2k.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoIDK. My 3090/7800X3D desktop, assembled new, was ~$2K. That's a very premium computer. And that's with the general Nvidia price gouging these days, and paying a premium for ITX as well. $2K is very expensive for a PC.
- Art9681 3y ago$4k is a little or a lot depending on your circumstance. Assume three individuals that make the same income. - One of them supports a family of 3 on one income. - One of them is single and supports only themselves. - One of them is married with dual-income and no kids. This has nothing to do with wealth.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoThere are also those who can afford it but don't see the value add. There better be some serious value add for me to spend $4k IMO. Others are a bit loose with their money which is their prerogative. I really only upgrade if my current PC cannot do a thing that I need it to do.
- xcv123 3y ago> I think people forget that $4k+ for a computer is Quadro workstation territory. M3 MacBook Pro 16" is $2499, roughly the same as an equivalent Dell XPS / Precision laptop (for the same price Dell typically has half the screen resolution, much worse battery life, and more RAM) Divide $2499 over five years, that's $500 per year. Not expensive on a developer salary in high income countries. It's a business expense.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThat's... not really a great comparison. New Asus G14s/G15s are more similar to MBPs and much more competitively priced.
- xcv123 3y agoNo. That's cheap plastic gamer junk. Those are toys. Different market segment. Not comparable. MacBook Pro competes with high end professional laptops, not consumer gaming laptops. Dell Precision with 4k screen is what you would compare it to.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoYeah, I dunno about that either. I have a 2020 G14, and its a fantastic piece of hardware. Honestly its overbuilt, except for the display (which I understand they have improved in more recent models).
- xcv123 3y agoYou're right, it's good value for what it is, not a piece of junk. But it doesn't compete in the same segment.
- dimask 3y agoIf you sell your 3yo computer you are gonna get a decent price, so upgrading a 4k computer every 3 years is not the same as spending 4k every 3 years. Though, it highly depends on the initial configuration, and the additional premiums you pay to apple for ram etc do not seem to scale so well in the second hand market. That said, I do not find much appeal to upgrade unless there is a specific reason myself. But there seems to be something in apple customer culture where people upgrade for the mere sake of stuff like new design or colour.
- fulafel 3y agoMedian household income globally is about $10k, it's about 2 months household income worth.