Highest amount you can spend on gadgets?

[Henrywrites]

Getting the new gadgets in town can be fun. You feel open to making payments to get the new iPhone or a the latest Samsung Galaxy. That being said, do you place a cap on how much you can spend on getting those gadgets? What would your amount be?

 

[Lamb]

Unless it's a new laptop, I won't spend thousands on a new gadget because to me it's not financially responsible. I don't understand how people spend a thousand dollars on a phone that's going to be upgraded in a couple years anyway.

 

[tango]

It depends entirely on what it is and how long I'm expecting to use it.

I won't pay a lot of money for a phone because for me it's a waste of money. My laptop cost the equivalent of around $2000, which was a huge sum for a laptop when I bought it. Ten years on it's still going strong. It won't run Windows 11 but with an upgraded hard drive it's great. When I bought it the biggest drive you could get in a laptop was 1TB but now it has a 4TB SSD in it and a 512GB mSATA drive. The chances are high it will last me another few years to come.

 

[Lamb]

It depends entirely on what it is and how long I'm expecting to use it.

I won't pay a lot of money for a phone because for me it's a waste of money. My laptop cost the equivalent of around $2000, which was a huge sum for a laptop when I bought it. Ten years on it's still going strong. It won't run Windows 11 but with an upgraded hard drive it's great. When I bought it the biggest drive you could get in a laptop was 1TB but now it has a 4TB SSD in it and a 512GB mSATA drive. The chances are high it will last me another few years to come.

When are they going to start imposing Win 11 on us, do you know?

 

[tango]

When are they going to start imposing Win 11 on us, do you know?

Depends who you mean by "they".

Microsoft can't impose it on us unless we choose to install it. They can make it harder to get older versions but can't force me to upgrade my computer. The only reason I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 was because my development platform didn't support Windows 7 any more, and I only did that within the last year or so.

A lot of people think that they have to upgrade when Microsoft stops supporting something but even then you can keep a machine running. My wife's laptop still runs Windows 7. I have a laptop kicking around somewhere that still runs Windows XP, although it's so old I haven't used it in years other than to see if it still worked at all (it did).