Comment by kasabali
21 days ago
> For one, PCs still make it there via ewaste shipments that then get repaired and sold for cheap, so you can have decent variety of old stuff.
No you can't. Unlike you, I'm talking from experience when I'm telling what €50 gets you in used marked in a non-developed country.
Just today I got a 15 year used laptop in a "developed country" (Germany) for €30. Windows 10 works in a VM. It did come with Windows 11, but I wiped that. What are you all arguing about?
Btw, I also got a Celeron laptop you were talking about, I got it for free.
I'm arguing that you can't find a laptop with 8th gen CPU for €50 in a developing country because used electronics (or simply all electronics) prices are much higher. I thought I was very specific about that.
Yeah, you said that, but I didn't got that, because my default assumption is the opposite. This is because first the purchasing power parity is much lower, and second because tons of electronic devices are shipped to "developing countries", due to ecologic regulations in the West. So I would expect the market to be flooded with old slightly-broken devices, same as they are flooded with "old" slightly-imperfect chickens. But I don't have numbers for that, it is just extrapolation out of other behaviour.
ok, as you say, I'm not gonna argue about it