[GuB-42]

> These are expensive machines

Impressive how that part changed. Today, many computers are cheaper than the desk they are sitting on. Many companies pay over $2000 for office furniture, and that's not even fancy. A $1000 laptop sits on top of it.

Furniture made by an actual cabinet maker will easily get to $5000+. About the price of a maxed out gaming rig, or an enterprise level workstation.

[asdff]

Seems like computers have become a sort of ongoing expense though. They are cheaper at the get, but no one is getting a new desk every 3 years like they might a new laptop. People are probably burning through laptops for one reason or another way more than they burn through desks. Company might not ever replace that desk.

The computers companies ditch and you can get on ebay are no slouches either. Recent gen i5 i7 mini pcs some with 16gb ram already. These are no slouch cpus. No m series macs but all these companies are doing are replacing it with a newer i5 or i7 mini pc, and the worker is often what, opening excel and outlook and teams, same as always.

[rhyperior]

I don’t know… if the top of line PC cost $3000 30 years ago, it seems like we’re pretty close to that today for class-equivalent hardware (without going absurd - 32GB of DDR5, game playing video card, 4TB SSD…)

[xboxnolifes]

Inflation adjusted, those particular specs would be much cheaper. At least prior to recent price changes due to AI demand.

You can definitely go much higher if you really go for TOP of the line though.