I spend a good deal of my time fixing my clients computers and while you are certainly correct from a performance standpoint and I would agree with you that most of today software is better.
Still I find that the garbage components used in the low end machines that everyone is hawking these days really takes all the fun out of repair work. Proprietary motherboard that can't be replaced or upgraded, unshielded power supplies, components that aren't built to spec and don't fit in "standard" cases.
I have a real issue with the $299 computer as I think it is designed to be in a landfill in 18 months so that the chip manufactures can sell the public more chips and Microsoft can sell more licenses to replace the ones that were just put into a landfill.
The lifespan of a good desktop used to be 5-7 years and Macs even longer. I think the move to disposable computers is the wrong move and I do long for the days when there were real quality components out there that were fun to work on.
Thanks for your comments.
Mark Beckley
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