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Apple Silicon iMacs appear to suffer from screen deterioration after two years — flood of user complaints hit Apple Community forums (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rule of thumb when buying electronics (or anything for that matter) is buy it cheap, buy it twice.

Nervously looks at the 10€/TB refurbished drives that just arrived

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

70€ isn't cheap for a laptop from 2011, to me at least...

But I get what you mean, 10€ per TB sounds too good to be true :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

PS3s regularly go for €115 so I guess it's not that surprising. It's about demand, if a lot of people want one then it doesn't really matter how old it is.