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Originally Posted by tranquility
Ok, so there's something confusing then, because how can the same niche cost more now, even though some of the machines you listed 'runs circles around my laptop' (I sure hope so as mine's 7 years old! haha)? In any event, my 'niche' is really super basic, I doubt many have a lower set of reqts than me.
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The niche that your machine fit in at the time was not a "bargain basement". It was at least one to two tiers above that (it had a 750mb hard drive, not small for the time). Due to inflation, that tier is more around $750 or so.
The two machines shown have much faster processors and graphics cards, and will perform much better browsing and watching youtube. But memory is now expensive. SSD's have no moving parts, and are blazing fast, but the lower tier machines have smaller hard drives (most people don't actually store much locally, video's, large files, etc.). If all you do is browse and don't need much more storage space (you're speed lacking rather than space lacking, but it looks like you have both problems based on the description.).
It's not confusing at all if you keep up with changes in the electronics realm. Covid kicked all of the factory's asses, and chips/memory became in short supply. Super bad timing.
Shawn