What happened to laptops?
Wow. Did laptops crash in price, or is it just my perception?
Yesterday I bought a brand new, whizzy laptop for just $800. (and that’s factoring in 17.5% VAT [rip off!] and a shocking exchange rate of 2 dollars to the pound, otherwise it would’ve been a lot cheaper).
Anyhow. I thought it was incredibly cheap… compared to the last laptop I bought in 1999.
Then I had a think about it. Since 1999 I’ve moved house (4 times) had 2 children, paid off half a million bucks of mortgage debt and lost my ponytail. 
I think it’s not surprising laptop technology has improved and fallen in price while that lot happened. I just didn’t notice.
April 21st, 2007 at 2:03 am
Having used to own a laptop shop most of the price drop has been not due to technology but due to a drop in the % commission the salesperson/shop recieves. Back in 2000 a laptop would cost about $3000, $1000 of that was cream. Today most laptop sales operate on a 8% markup.
Not worth being in the business anymore.