Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades? (boilingsteam.com)

>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment.

These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

55 answers to that poll, with no idea of if or how it has changed from last year. I do believe that many people are postponing upgrades, but those poll results are not worst spending that many words on.

I updated my laptop this past December for fear of the RAM price hike.

Today I checked its price on the web I bought it and it was almost 300€ more.

Who was upgrading on a yearly schedule?

Am I the only one who hasn’t felt the need to upgrade in _way_ more than just one year? I still have an old XPS 15 9560 (pushing 10 years!!!) running Ubuntu which is perfectly usable. I upgraded the ram (32Gb) and the battery, and I still consider it to be totally usable for most day to day tasks. Development, docker containers, browsing the web with an unhealthy number of tabs open. What more do I need?

As somebody who only buys used electronics, I am worried that this means the used-electronics-prices are going to start rising closer to a more accurate (and more expensive) level. Bad for me, but probably good for allocation of resources.