Some E Waste FYI

I've been watching the market in my area for the last couple of months and things don't seem to be moving. Anything with a tower is all but dead. Laptops are sluggish and the market is saturated.

Your average consumer seems to be looking for smaller and smaller devices. Laptops are phasing out and things like I phones are in. There seems to be some interest in the " all in ones " if they're running DDR 3 memory.

I've been watching the businesses and they seem to be replacing their towers & desktops with things that have a smaller form factor. I'm even seeing some "task specific" equipment that barely resembles a computer.

Folks appear to be wanting to buy the newest tech as a status symbol. They seem to know little or nothing about the specs and how a machine performs so they mindlessly follow the trends of what's currently the kool thing. Others go by the bigger is better theory so they buy a machine with 16 gb of ram and a 3 tb hard drive to browse the web & check their email.

A well tuned optiplex with 4 gb ddr-2 & 3+ ghz dual core will perform most tasks really well. After the upgrade at the end of this month they may perform even better because the new os may turn out to be even lighter on system resources than the last version.

It's a hard thing because your average consumer just doesn't seem to be open to that idea. It's not what they're looking for.