I bought a new computer 2 weeks ago do all this arguing is a waste, not to mention I said I wasn't paying for a Mac.
It's kinda funny, with the amount of time I've spent around/with VW I've noticed some things about there owners. All of VW people aren't your average point A to point B kinda drivers, they are car people. The VW car people tend to gravitate to anything and everything that's popular. It always amazes me how many VW people are the stereotypical hipsters.
What you are saying is that other Mac fanatics are foolish enough to pay higher for used Mac products? I see. I didn't know Apple fans were that gullible.
Just checked eBay. Some original MacBook Air (2008) laptops selling for $400-500. Considering the $1799 sticker price on it? That's not 90% of it's value. That's 22% of it's value.
I checked eBay to confirm resale value. I don't know what resale value has to do with my IT experience. That would be more sales than IT. But checking eBay confirmed what I said. This is a sales discussion here. The IT experience factor was in a different thread. Keep it that way.
As far as PC components "holding value", technology is always depreciating and gets cheaper. I paid $200 for 2GB DDR400 back in 2006. Now you can get 8GB DDR3 for $40. It's just a part of technology and has nothing to do with "holding value".
Last time I checked they were practically giving away iPhone 3GS's for $50 with contract at AT&T when the iPhone 4 came out: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/06/iphone-3gs-to-be-50-from-att-starting-tomorrow/
Yep, that's "holding value" so well that they were practically giving them away.
Not to pile on this guy but for someone in IT to not realize the life expectancy of your average computer is 3 to 5 years is kind of sad. 4 years is EONS ago in terms of any computer device... Moore's Law much??
I bought a new computer 2 weeks ago do all this arguing is a waste, not to mention I said I wasn't paying for a Mac.
The VW car people tend to gravitate to anything and everything that's popular. It always amazes me how many VW people are the stereotypical hipsters.
1. Don't care about "piling". Don't know any of you. Don't give a shit. Pretty cool, eh?
2. For most businesses the life-cycle is 3-4 years due to warranties and rolling in faster computer systems for increased productivity. Nobody is going to throw their computer away if it's 4 years old. I still have a Core 2 in my computer. Not going to replace it anytime soon because I don't need to. It's not slow and still works.
3. Do all of you think IT is solely desktops and laptops? Really? Going back to this shit is kind of reminiscing of years and years ago when I actually worked tech support. Working in IT isn't purely break-fix crap. For someone like you not to realize that is kind of sad.
4. Moore's Law is irrelevant with the advent of multi-core processing. The cost of disk storage was thrown for a loop with some floods in Thailand. Moore's Law is a principle, not reality.
IT is not my field of work, computers are just a hobby for me. You said something that didn't jive. I just wanted to point out a flaw in bringing up the depreciated value of a four year old computer.
It didn't make any sense to me. From my novice understanding Moore's Law still stands in the sense that technology is still evolving at a constant exponential clip. Multi-core processors didn't change that.
People just aren't writing applications that take full advantage of them and that's why the performance aspect of Moore's Law isn't working out the way he thought. If the applications were written to fully utilize multi core processors then the performance would be there to back Moore's Law. That's a human error. The logic is sound. It isn't irrelevant at all. Once the software catches up to the hardware his theory still works.
Intel's Ivy Bridge processors are rumored to be released April 8th and Apple has always gotten first dibs at Intel's processors; therefore, it would be safe to assume the new redesign should arrive sometime then (Q2)?
Why should Apple interrupt their cycle just to upgrade the processor on their laptops and have to redesign them? Once a year redesign is good enough and then put the chips in them. LOL
Besides, if Apple is so innovative then a "redesign" to actually be in front of technology change instead of being Microsoft's sloppy seconds might make more sense.