That’s great.
I’m telling you as someone who worked for a long time doing business and individual support that people don’t upgrade their computers. Even when it was the “best” choice, you tell someone $30 worth of memory and a $50 ssd will make their computer better than new and they’ll choose to buy a new one almost every time. Businesses have a refresh cycle and don’t upgrade outside of that.
The overwhelming majority of computers, and I’m talking phones, laptops, towers, mini pcs, all of it. The vast overwhelming majority of computers will never be upgraded or have any hardware replaced at all even as a repair.
Including phones in this ought to tilt it towards getting things fixed too because of all the broken screens but most people just get a new phone when they break the screen or lose battery life.
E: if you want to look for yourself, and I understand why you might, find someone near you doing electronic salvage and peek at the machines they’re stripping out. Not a one will ever have anything other than what it shipped with.
and I’m talking phones,
Well, in that case you are correct. Haven’t seen anyone upgrade them unless we are talking about something like pinephone. But I was talking about PCs and even laptops(only RAM in their case).
I am too. I used to think that people upgraded computers because I and the people around me did, but seeing what a local ewaste scrapper deals with I ended up changing my mind. All those computers are in their bone-stock configuration.
Once he got a pallet of gaming pcs, prebuilt originally, but I thought at least these will have upgraded ram and cpus and for sure gpus and ssds. Nope. They were as they shipped. Two of four slots empty, still booted perfectly up on spinning media.
When companies say they’re not seeing demand for upgradability I believe them.
Wow. That’s depressing. In which country you seen it? I heard stories of germans throwing away i5-2400-based perfectly working PCs, but this is something new.
because I and the people around me did,
Same. When I was in school from 15 of kids I talked on semi-regular basis I know about 6 people who upgraded their desktop PCs, 2 who updgraded laptop and 1 who upgraded monoblock. I use school as example because to not have sampling bias towards upgrading.
