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.
