Peoples perception of Technology

[Spudz27]

I am sitting here thinking to myself how is it that people have this perception of technology, that it changes every second. In some respects yes, in others not so much. Take laptops for example, I sell them for a living and am forever getting people say to me that their laptop will be old the minute they walk out the door, not necessarily. I bought a laptop on the weekend for my partner, now we sell this laptop for $1100. I have a dell xps15z which I bought 2yrs ago for $1290. Now you would expect my dell to be outdated and worthless. However my 2yr old dell, would run rings around almost any laptop in the range of $600-$1000. Maybe not a fair comparison, but remember I am comparing a laptop bought 2yrs ago with laptops up to $1000 now. My dell has full 1080p, 8gb DDR3, 7200rpm HDD, 2.6ghz I5 2nd gen, GT570m, all USB 3.0 etc

I just returned a samsung which I paid $850 for, it has 3rd Gen I5 2.6, 8gb ram, 2GB Radeon Hybrid graphics, HDD was only 5500rpm. It was pathetically slow, no 1080p etc.

I swapped this for an ASUS, with A8 Quad Core 2.1ghz, 8gb ram, 1GB 7920g and 1GB 7920m, 2 x USB 3.0. Whilst the Asus does run quicker than the samsung, just. It is still miles behind my Dell and it retails for $1099.

Yet people have this perception that their $1300 laptop from 2yrs ago is **** and they must upgrade, and a $650 laptop today would be just as good as their $1200 laptop. Whilst my job is to sell people these things, I have also saved people money by explaining that their perception is wrong and that their 2yr old laptop is more than capable of doing what they want. It just seems to be this mindset of, "oh it's old technology, so it must be crap"