RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Obsolete hardware

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Let me revise that...

800
600
400
200...

Don't worry, it will take a long time for your hardware to reach the $10
mark. Those 486's just reached the $10 mark in the last year or so. The
curve kind of tapers off. Kind of like an exponential decay. I'll bet
that your computer was no where near worth half of what you paid for it
the year after you bought it. That's when the fastest depreciation
occurs. At the bottom end you have a kind of compression thing going on
where old machines aren't exiting the market fast enough, but they won't
throw them away because of perceived value. So if I have 386's at $20 a
piece, My 486's start bottoming out at $60, and so on... The biggest
thing that encourages this is that they have large warehouses, and don't
mind storing the stuff. 

Shannon Spurling
WAN Engineer -Specialist

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Shannon
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:09 AM
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Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Obsolete hardware

Oh, it's got to be worse than that. More like:
12,800
3,200
800
200

Most computers are "Obsolete" within 3 years, and their price has gone
down into the $300 and below dollar range by then.
The $800 P3-700's that sold back in 2000, are now worth less than $200
now. And the more expensive the hardware, the quicker the price drops.
It seams almost exponential. The only exception to that rule is Mac and
other specialized hardware vendors, like SGI, SUN, etc...

Shannon Spurling
WAN Engineer -Specialist

MOREnet, Network Services, Core Network
3212 LeMone Industrial Blvd.
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:26 AM
To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Obsolete hardware

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jonathan King wrote:

> A computer you bought for $12,800 in 1997 depreciates like this:
>
> 1997 $12,800
> 1998 $ 6,400
> 1999 $ 3,200
> 2000 $ 1,600
> 2001 $   800
> 2002 $   400
> 2003 $   200

You know, it's sad but just possibly true!  One sure thing:  Don't buy
one
unless you're going to start using it immediately!

Mike
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