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accounting depreciation is different from real world performance
Depreciation says a computer evaporates after 3 or 5 years in most companies.
These days computers are replaced after the 3-year service warranty in many companies, we would just toss them to the recyclers (or the back of my car sometimes if I had a project happening at home...) Occasionally they would find second use somewhere reliability didn't matter, but a lot of IT managers won't risk it, production downtime for a $700 PC is not worth it. My last job in a factory I had to get written permission from an IT manager to redeploy an out-of-warranty system, or could be fired when it failed.
I see. that's good for us, since lightly pre-owned corpo laptops are cheap
With planned obselecence they might as well