Comment by 1718627440
22 days ago
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.