[Lalabadie]

And in the meantime, major buyers (government, big orgs) adjust by extending the planned lifespan of their computers, and upping the IT wage budget a bit to support that. That adjustment probably won't go away after supply returns.

[BunsanSpace]

That's honestly a good thing. Computers aren't really getting faster for end users doing mundane tasks the past couple of years.

Will help reduce E-Waste, and to the end user there won't be a different. A machine from 5 years ago feels just as fast as a brand new machine.

[KellyCriterion]

Im always shocked how much good IT equipment is shoved into the trashbin: At a lot of companies I could make a great deal - either for using it on my own or selling it on Ebay later on.

Big Corporations offen trash IT equipment thats only 3 - 4 years old. And there is no recycling etc. Very sad.

[toast0]

Big corporations tend to send old hardware through the surplus marketplace. There's lots of 3-4 year old corporate computers for sale. Often, the company leases the computers and then the lessor will sell them when they're returned.

[lamontcg]

I got a pretty nice 120Hz ultrawide dell for cheap at one of those surplus shops awhile back.

[Lalabadie]

Apple themselves make pretty good business leasing their own products that way.

[bradlys]

Meanwhile I’m at faang and they’re reusing 7 year old monitors still. Still getting equipment from pre-covid era.

Where are these luxurious big corporations that give their employees nice new equipment? :(

[toast0]

As long as it's working (and not gross), why do you need a new monitor? My current monitor is a 2010 model, I think I got it around 2013. I don't know what a new monitor would do for me, other than have a worse aspect ratio, cause Dell stopped making 30" 16:10 monitors.

[bradlys]

In theory, yes. However a lot of these monitors are still 2560x1440 and are 30”+. The ppi is quite low. I’m looking for 4k and something that looks similar enough to the M4 MBP I’m working on. A lot of these just don’t look good as they used to.

[KellyCriterion]

What Im doing wrong? My 24" with 1920x1200 from 2010 is doing quite fine until today?

[TremendousJudge]

> A machine from 5 years ago feels just as fast as a brand new machine.

Except you can't install Windows 11 on it, and the org has to trash it anyway to keep up with security requirement (I know people on that line of work, they're all angry about it)