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[–] 10 points 1 day ago*

because the money i've saved for a new pc would buy me a worse one than the one I have now.

On a related note, at wor k, after 5 years my laptop was deemed too old so they gave me a new one. It's a strict downgrade.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 day ago

    (glances at tripling costs for ram, GPU, storage, now power)

    Imagine my complete lack of surprise !

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    don't worry you can just subscribe to a PC that someone else owns for you ☺️ (he can also install and maintain it for you, and over time it'll display more ads)

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    [–] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Teens are getting priced out

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    👁️👄👁️

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    I need to go hug my PC.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The fact that this is only the FIRST quarter, is ridiculous - I am going off the assumption that PC is used as intended, a “Personal Computer” and not as a general catch-all for computing hardware (ie. including data centres)?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Not first ever quarter. Title here says it was 9 consecutive quarters of growth, but I understood it was 5 from the article (All of 2025 + Q1 2026)

    It also seems to count laptops and desktops, not desktop hardware bought as individual components. Manufacturers may have had stockpiles for a while, Apple certainly managed to keep their old pricing through much of 2025 at least, if not part of 2026.

    I suspect if you looked at individual PC components, the growth dropped off sooner, but I cba to look up the numbers

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