| >I don't understand what you're trying to say here. You mention that adults are buying their children new hardware, but you're also talking about 6-7 year old gaming PCs? Not quite sure what you mean. You buy a new PC, what happens to old one? It doesn't magically disappear. >Yeah, but these are gaming PCs. They're terribly impractical for casual use. They're bulky and hot and noisy, with terrible battery life and a large power consumption. I'm talking about desktops, not laptops. They're not noisy and hot unless you run them at 100%, which you don't do when not gaming. You could also remove GPU and save some power, but I rarely see people doing this. > You know, I've never seen anyone still using a PC from 2010. Macs from 2010 aren't that uncommon though; I know at least a handful of people who use the non-Retina MacBook Pros from like 2009 every day This is why i stated 'where I live'. Macs aren't common here (there's a trend for last 3-4 years for MacBooks, but still low market share), and in 2010 they were almost nonexistent.
This is why there aren't much of old ones around. Everyone had a PC though, and it can be seen that they can handle new versions of Windows as well if not better than macs can handle new OSX. > Even the MacBook from today is faster, and MacBook Pro, while not "twice as fast", is around 1 1/2 times faster or so. Yes, but did you see people owning Airs complain about slugishness? For same reason they don't on 2x faster, 7 year old machine. > With Android it's hit-or-miss. With Android you have choice. You pay premium for a pixel and updates, or go cheap and don't get those.
There's also Android One initiative, which gives phones updates straight from google.
Yes, harder for uneducated guesses, but you can still stay good knowing only that Google = longer life. With iOS there's only one choice. |