Wow. That’s depressing. In which country you seen it? I heard stories of germans throwing away i5-2400-based perfectly working PCs, but this is something new.
because I and the people around me did,
Same. When I was in school from 15 of kids I talked on semi-regular basis I know about 6 people who upgraded their desktop PCs, 2 who updgraded laptop and 1 who upgraded monoblock. I use school as example because to not have sampling bias towards upgrading.
Wow. That’s depressing. In which country you seen it? I heard stories of germans throwing away i5-2400-based perfectly working PCs, but this is something new.
Same. When I was in school from 15 of kids I talked on semi-regular basis I know about 6 people who upgraded their desktop PCs, 2 who updgraded laptop and 1 who upgraded monoblock. I use school as example because to not have sampling bias towards upgrading.
America. Especially for people and organizations that rely on warranties or support agreements it just doesn’t happen.