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Hardware price surge drives student demand for refurbished laptops
it’s true in the usa and it’s true in india, exact same response to the exact same stressors. that’s interesting.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/hardware-price-surge-drives-student-demand-for-refurbished-laptops/articleshow/134679943.cmsReplying to @qImPMgxRpOZiUbxz4hWq@lemmy.world
My sister-in-law’s somewhat new laptop had water damage. She was surprised that I wanted to spend about $100 at a local repair shop to get it fixed.
It’s only 1-2 years old and had 16gb ddr5, a 512ssd and a 10 core intel processor. I forget what one, but it’s pretty modern.
She bought a MacBook Air to replace it so luckily she didn’t ask for any money for it.
The repair price might seem extra low because I’m not in the US.
Replying to @neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The right-to-repair movement hopefully means we can keep doing this in the future with our ever increasingly expendable digital devices. Until 2026, my wife and I have daily driven two x30-series ThinkPads from 2012, repairing and upgrading along the way. Outright purchasing new laptops could easily have been a thousand dollars every five years or so for each of us.
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Replying to @halfpipe@sopuli.xyz
I’ve been keeping all my old tech. I have some stuff that’s pretty useless, but in one instance, I was able to move a vps I have for my business and run it locally saving a bit each month. It’s running on an old MacBook Pro from 2016.
It’s also just a test server that I use before pushing to production in the cloud.