Re: End Of 10 Project

On 2025/6/23 23:8:10, chrisv wrote:

J. P. Gilliver wrote:

chrisv wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

It is true if you include the writeoff of existing hardware which is still
fully functional, but cannot run Windows 11.

The price of the new PC is the entire cost.  There is no "writeoff" to
be added to arrive at the total cost of the upgrade.

Yes there is. If, all other things being equal, someone had budgeted for
a PC as having, say, two or three years' useful work in it (say, talking
until some hardware fails), but now find s/he now has to not only buy a
new computer but retire the old one, that cost certainly has to be
included in the cost of the "up"grade.

Oh, we're going to include the "cost to retire" the old one, are we?
That is often zero.

As you mention, the old machine might even have some value, making the
"cost to retire" a negative number!

As I think you know very well, I didn't mean the cost of physically
unplugging it - I meant the cost of withdrawing it when it still - by
the budget drawn up before it suddenly had to be replaced - had some
residual value. (And such value plummeted as soon as the forced
withdrawal became necessary.)
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