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I literally just bought a 2nd hand laptop, made by $huge_tech_conglomerate_from_pacific_northwest, with an 11-th gen i7, for less than EUR 250. The reason it wa
by lou1306 2y ago
I literally just bought a 2nd hand laptop, made by $huge_tech_conglomerate_from_pacific_northwest, with an 11-th gen i7, for less than EUR 250. The reason it was so cheap? It has a defective charging port so it only charges via USB-C. So it's not even "dead" dead.
This is mind-boggling, the CPU alone almost basically makes the full price. In what world is this an efficient allocation of resources?
- fn-mote 2y ago> This is mind-boggling, the CPU alone almost basically makes the full price. In what world is this an efficient allocation of resources? The world in which diagnosis (plus risk of incorrect diagnosis) is done at $200/hour. Obviously a corporate sale, where they cannot be bothered to check it out because that's not their core business.