• ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I’m due for a laptop refresh at work in a couple months. Used to happen every 3 years when the warranty ended, but they extended it 6 months because of price increases. The irony here is not lost upon me. I hope they don’t extend it another 6 months. Or cheap out on the specs. Or both.

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      17 hours ago

      Good luck. At my shop, we extended from a 36-month refresh cycle to “when the hardware is no longer capable of running a supported operating system”.

      SMBs can’t absorb these hardware costs.