![]() If you want a DDR5 setup, this ASUS Prime Z690-A is still ~$260 with plenty of luxuries. Something like this ASUS Prime Z690-P is reasonably priced at just north of ~$200, it even has luxuries like 2.5gig ethernet and onboard wireless. Only if you go for the really stupid RGB "gamer" motherboards sprinkled with more fairy dust than sense. Layoffs also mean there's a glut of machines (there's a ton of nice off-lease stuff on refurbished web sites right now at bottom-barrel prices I saw a Precision laptop with 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Xeon, and NVidia Tesla for under $500 a few weeks back). As we're entering a predicted recession, delaying upgrades is the #1 thing to go. That's one of Apple's problems.Īnother one is that most businesses spent a lot on upgrades during COVID, and those machines are still within their lifecycle. A device which fails at a critical moment can have almost arbitrary costs.įrom a business perspective, Apple, Latitude / Precision / XPS, and Thinkpads are usually the only devices which make sense.įrom a home perspective, there are plenty of $200 machines which get the job done. A failed device will typically cost thousands of dollars in lost productivity, IT costs, etc. ![]() ![]() Note that cost > salary, so this corresponds to perhaps a $100k salary. If a laptop makes an employee 1% more efficient, that has returns of $2k/year to the employer for an employee whose cost is $200k/year. I think the key problem is anchoring from low-end prices. Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 16384 bytes) ![]() I guess I'll need to install Homebrew, MacPorts or something.Įdit vm_stat says this. ![]() PhysMem: 31G used (2888M wired, 15G compressor), 74M unused.Ī bit confusing even for someone who is comfortable dealing with low level kernel stuff. ![]()
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