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Honestly, I consider computers to be almost disposable now.
Ever go lawnmower shopping? It's really really really hard to justify spending $4K on a shiny, feature-rich, ride-on rig when you can just buy a flimsy push unit for $99 and just replace it every two years. Both lawnmowers cut grass equally well. In the end, that's all that really matters.
I feel the same way about computers. My 3-year old laptop was running kinda slow and getting bitchy. So I junked it and bought a new one. Just went to Best buy and bought bought a $600 Dell laptop/tablet combo thingy and I'm in business. I'll probably chuck it in the garbage in another two or three years and never even think about it.
When I think of all the things I use a computer for...$200/year seems cheap. I pay twice that every month for my car, with gas and insurance, it's 3x. And I use that only about a tenth as much.
And specs schmecks if you ask me. Even the shittiest computers today can do 99.9% of what you ask them to do virtually instantly. The exception obviously is anything graphic intensive like design softwares and games. And frankly, based on all the alphabet-soup already in this thread, PC gaming sounds like a complicated chore. Just spend $500 on a computer and $300 on a gaming console...problem solved.
That all being said, the only feature that is an absolute dealbreaker for me when buying a computer is a light-up keyboard.
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