![]() ![]() 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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