Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO

• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If they cost more, it would also disincentivize spending on the laptop unless it’s necessary. So theoretically fewer laptops should come over. If you don’t buy a laptop because your laptop isn’t really in need of replacement, then you just saved 100%. Or you could also buy a used laptop that’s newer than the one you have from somebody else in good condition and save some percentage of what you would have paid for the new one anyway.

  Just as an example, I’m rocking a laptop from 2014 with an Intel 3rd generation Core i7. Obviously the newest Intel is the 13th generation, but you can find Intel 7th and 8th generation laptops which are much newer than mine for decent prices.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No one buys an Acer laptop because they want it like a new iPhone. They buy it because they have to.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Obviously the newest Intel is the 13th generation

    Erm

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LOL, just goes to show. I don’t keep up with processors close enough, apparently.

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  • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Correct, except that more people buying used laptops will incentivize people to upgrade more often as they can depend on a strong secondhand market to recoup some of the cost of the new one by selling the old one.

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a fair point. The way I see it, it’s similar to buying a car. If you buy a new car, as soon as you drive it off the lot, it loses $3,000 in value and depreciates quite a bit within the first year. If you buy a one-year-old used car, it’s still in pretty good condition and has had the “new” tax deducted already.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Laptops aren’t funko pops, no one’s buying extra cause they want to get one in every color. People buy them out of necessity. So no this isn’t gonna discourage anything, maybe it’ll get people to try and repair their older laptops, but because of corporate greed, most modern laptops aren’t designed for repair ability, rather they go out of their way to make it harder to repair, and they don’t release sufficient schematics and spare parts needed for repair, not to mention there are only so many technicians or tech savvy people with the know how to repair them.

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