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many factors in a pc purchase

This sheds light on the shortsighted analysis of writers such as George Ou, although he is certainly not the only offender. A PC purchase is a many-faceted decision, and its costs add up to much more than just the hardware.

It's not that hardware price doesn't matter; it does. But so does ease of use, ease of maintainability, reliability of the machine, overall real-world security, etc. In the end, the study is right; these latter factors probably mean as much or more as the hardware price itself in terms of consumer value.

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