Quote - That's all true -- but it's still a bit of a downer that today's $3000 investment is worth half that amount next year -- and then worth zero (0) approx. 4 years later.

Pretty much any other "investment" of such a nature would be regarded as evidence of fiscal insanity on the part of the investor.

What's needed is a form of trade-in policy - akin to cars.  Get a reasonable valued estimate for your computer towards a new one.  The company could then refurbish and resell for those who don't need the latest-greatest or donate them to schools and so on.  Blue-book for desktop/laptop computers, anyone? :)

And, yep, it is fiscal insanity.  If it weren't that computers are a business model, justification of such insanity (for games, for instance) would be, well, insane!

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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