1O fim de gotas regulares de preços PC?

I-REG-cu lar de construção PCs para as pessoas, e foram recentemente olhando para uma especificação de ponta para alguém. comecei, como costumo fazer, olhando o que eu tenho para um sistema high-end cerca de um ano atrás, para ver se valeu a pena subir a nova geração, ou se uma queda substancial na especificação mais velho tornou tentador para repetir. No passado, o sistema de ano de idade sempre foi substancialmente mais barato, so I was quite sur­prised to find that this time it was­n’t. Primeiro, let’s look at the core parts of the sys­tem — then, and now. I’ll also com­pare this to a new gen­er­a­tion equi­val­ent to see what that looks like.

Ouch! So the new gen­er­a­tion sys­tem is £53.10 more expens­ive (sobre 10%) but the old spec, bought today, would be more expens­ive than it was a year ago!  This can­’t be accoun­ted for by 1 volat­ile item (like RAM ou HDD), because whilst the RAM has increased by £30 (over 40%), none of the oth­er com­pon­ents has dropped by an appre­ciable amount. It looks like Intel’s dom­in­ance of the CPU world is mean­ing speed improve­ments are much slower to arrive, and their older CPUs aren’t fall­ing in price. This in turn means mother­boards and RAM also aren’t devalu­ing either.

The full spec

Lets look and see if prices for oth­er parts of the sys­tem have dropped, for those look­ing to build an entire system

So the old spec has dropped by £7 over­all. A new gen­er­a­tion machine, which is largely the same spec, is £20 more. So really, things haven’t changed at all. In a year!

Two lessons learned

1. Giv­en that there is no obvi­ous reas­on for the cur­rent trend to change, now is not a good time to “wait for prices to fall” If you’re look­ing for new kit then now really is as good a time as any to invest.

2. Desktop PC innov­a­tion looks to have col­lapsed as the mar­ket has moved to mobile (i.. computador portátil, tab­let and phone).  Expect future gen­er­a­tions to offer the same (or very sim­il­ar) per­form­ance with lower power con­sump­tion. This means older high per­form­ance desktop CPUs will con­tin­ue to hold their value, as the desktop upgrade mar­ket has­n’t ever been driv­en by a need to reduce power use.