A lot of people buy computers and have a problem: like budget, do you choose laptops or desktops
Most people only see the price of the hand, think it's cheap, or try to flush the notebook directly. But to be honest, buying a computer cannot be a one-time purchase price, and the real price differential is the long-term cost of three or five years。
In two years, many people have discovered that the notebooks are suffering from small problems and increasingly difficult performances, and that the desktops are becoming more and more heavy. If we don't talk about parameters today, we'll get a five-year full-cost account of the real-life scenario, and you'll know what to choose。
The premise of unity is also true for the vast majority of people: a budget of $5,000, day-to-day office follow-up, occasional games, regular daily home use for five years。
I. Purchasing machine nudity: same budget, desktop performance directly crushing
Five thousand dollars in budget, the difference between the two machines, can be seen when they're bought。
$5,000 in notebooks, middle entrance. The processor, the graphic card, is a condensed version, and the factory chamber of commerce suppresses performance for light and temperature control. The normal office is fine, with the cutting of videos and the playing of mainstream internet games, which can easily burn down frequencies and unstable frames。
But $5,000 for one desktop, it's a different stage. The performance of an equivalent price desktop is 30-40 per cent higher than that of a notebook. Processors and graphic cards are full of blood, heat-scattered space, running for long periods of time with no cartons and no down frequency。
In short: spend the same money, desktops are full of configurations, notebooks are castration configurations. This is not prejudice, it is the physical limitations of hardware, and the notebooks are to be carried lightly, necessarily at the expense of performance and heat dispersion。
Two, five-year electricity bill: the notebook is small and the difference is very small
Many people think that desktops are expensive and that the daily use gap is minimal and need not be confused。
General office notebooks, daily stand-by, web browsing, office, power of about 30-60 watts, 8 hours a day and tens of dollars a year。
A desktop has a daily office capacity of about 100 watts, and even if it plays games occasionally, it costs more than $780 a year than a notebook。
For five years, the total cost of desktop power is $3,400 more than the notebook。
This difference, in the five-year cycle, is entirely negligible. Unless you turn it off 24 hours, the cost of electricity is not an element of choice at all。
Iii. Maintenance costs: a notebook is the real “note breaker”
This is the largest hidden cost that has been neglected by the vast majority and the largest cost gap in five years。
The notebook structure is highly integrated, and a piece of spare parts is broken, probably with a pile of accessories。
The screen is broken, the battery drum packs, the keyboard failure, the dissipation of the ash ash, the main plate is in trouble, all of which are common. It's four and a half hundred for the original screen, one and two for the battery, and it's a few hundred for the main plate。
Moreover, the greater the use of the notebook, the higher the failure rate in the later stages, the beginning of the third year of a complication of minor problems. For five years of normal use, the normal notebook is likely to undergo one or two repairs, and the total cost of repairing, cleaning and changing spare parts for five years is on average between $800 and $1,500。
Desktops are completely different, and all parts are independent。
Visible cards, memory, hard drives, power supply, which is broken and which is replaced by which parts are not moved. It is also well-heated and robust, it is not easy to bump into damage and normal use is virtually non-functional。
The vast majority of household desktops, with five years of basic zero maintenance costs, have at most occasionally been removed from the dust, at no cost。
For five years alone, the desktop will save thousands of dollars from the notebook。
Iv. Upgrading costs: desktop fighting for another three years and the notebook is directly scrapped
In three or four years of computer use, there's a lack of performance, and the gap between the two is completely wide open。
The notebook has little room for upgrading。
Memory, hard drives, many of which are welded to the main panel, can be replaced, few options are available and costly. After five years, the configuration is completely out of date and cardon is so serious that it can be virtually completely eliminated that it cannot be saved。
Desktops are modular designs that are intended for upgrades。
It's slow enough to get a root memory and change the solid form; if you want to play a new game for a graphic card, you can sell your old parts back. Five years later, it took two or three hundred upgrades, and it was able to fight for another two or three years。
On a long-term basis, desktops have a much longer life cycle than notebooks, with an average strength of two to three years than notebooks, and the disguise saves a large amount of money for new computers。
V. Residual value comparison: who is worth more after five years
Many sell old computers to find that the residual value is different。
Five years of notebooks, basically at the “e-waste” level。
Body wear, battery ageing, performance deterioration, second-hand recycling prices are extremely low and many machines are sold for 200 or 300, or even no one wants them, to eat ash at home。
Desktop residuals are too high。
Individual graphic cards, memory and hard drives are hard currency, and even when the machine is old and parts are sold, the return price is much higher than the notebook. Combined, five years later, the residual value of the desktop was between $500 and $1,000 higher than the notebook。
Six, five years at the end of the day. Yeah
We're putting all the costs together for a real five-year sum of ordinary people:
The same $5,000 budget:
1. Total cost of notebooks: purchase machine 5000+low electricity + 1,000+ zero upgrade space + 300 residual value, actual cost of approximately $5,700 over five years, basic end of life after five years
2. Total cost of desktops: 500 + 300 + 0 + low-cost upgrade + 800, actual cost of approximately 4,500 dollars over five years and available for continued use
Not that i don't know. It's really a big difference. Under the same budget, during the five-year life cycle, more than a thousand pieces of desktops were saved and their performance was stronger and more durable。
Vii. What are we going to do
Direct choice of desktop:
Fixed at home, in dormitories, with very few computers on their way out; main office, editing, play games; intended to spend four or five years on a computer. Desktops are the best for price, stability and long-term savings。
Direct choice of notebook:
Frequent commuters, stay in school, travels, travels to and from work; the need to use computers at all times and anywhere; and low performance requirements, which are used only for web brushing, documentation and follow-up. Sacrifice is worth it。
In the short term, the notebooks are easy to win and have no place in
In the long run, desktops win performance, save money, sustain and preserve value。
Stop looking at the price of the machine at the moment. The computer is a long-term consumer, costing five years, and winning the notebook in comparison to the value of the budget desktop. There are no absolutely better computers, but only those that are suitable for their own usage。
