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NEVER OBSOLETE (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I used to be a retail PC service tech back when these things were new. I remember scoffing at the “never obsolete” tag. They were obsolete while still new in the box.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I worked in retail sales at the time.

    customer: "What's the catch?"

    me: "It's pretty slow now, if you keep it a couple years, you get to buy someone else's post upgrade for cheap assuming the company is still around, you don't get the replacement from us"

    customer: "So what about those Compaq's?"

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's literally a computer. In your home. What would you even upgrade? Get two of them maybe?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    During the era it wasn't rare to upgrade components on the motherboard and ISA/PCI bus cards. We'd had some relatively stable CPU socket standards and you'd do things like change out CPU and ram for upgrades.

    Was this a stupid marketing gimmick? Oh yeah. Was it unreasonable to talk about upgrading a system at home? Not really. We did do it for a while.

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