You May Still Get a PC With Old Price

[marcus]

From https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/microsoft-just-found-another-way-040219117.html
Title : Microsoft just found another way to make PCs more expensive, because apparently they weren’t pricey enough
By Rachit Agarwal , August 2026

... ASUS (the world's 5th largest PC supplier) shared an especially eye-opening number .. Compared to the 4th quarter of last year, some of its products are now selling for almost 30% more (mostly due to memory hike)...

... Last July Windows' price hikes were between 7% and 10% (faster PCs pays more), a noticeably bigger jump ...

 

[marcus]

I normally buy used fan-less mini PCs (with less than 10 W Intel processors) because :
a) they work as new (except that the OS doesn't comes automatically due to their depleted coin battery) ;
b) they are very reliable ;
c) I pay around 50% of their original price (usually released around 5 years ago when the prices were lower & stable) ;
d) I install newer free Linux OS on them ;
e) these lower cost PCs are more than capable of doing all usual functions that an average retired expat needs .

Notes :
1. The last I bought recently : ECS Liva Mini PC Intel N3350 (TDP 6W) , 8 GB RAM & 128 GB , Rp770k
2. Not suggested for playing intensive video processing games