Comment by jacobgkau
3 months ago
Have computer prices gotten considerably cheaper since the days when companies had human support employees? Some components have gotten considerably more expensive, so it seems like they haven't, at least on average.
Relatively speaking yes. My Macintosh Quadra 605 was around $1000 in 1994 and was a low end model at the time. Today that $1000 would be around $2100 or so. I can get an entry level MacMini for $499.
I don't think you can just compare one of the first personal computers with today's hardware.
Price for innovation and corresponding hardware is just way higher then for established tech items
Its like comparing apples vision pro to whatever cheap VR stuff we may get in the future which everyone uses then
Yeah; a better comparison would be with a current generation AI workstation. I’ll randomly go with Razer, since they look pretty and are shipping 5090’s with high-end AMD processors.
$3-5K.
The humans have gotten more expensive.
You have data showing wage increases for it support staff?