So taking stock of what I bought over the years, I have spent the most money recently on a computer peripheral - colour-laser printer at the time $600 + tax, $618. I see now you can get that printer as low as $479.99 to $799, but hey at the time I did a lot of over-time at work and it was nearing my birthday so, eh why not? Plus I AM getting my money's worth out of it actually.


I typically also recycle some parts from other computers when possible, such as monitor, keyboard and mouse, speakers (definitely speakers) - so that way I could obviously offset costs for something a bit more expensive. Plus I consider myself a power user but not a gamer much, some things I do 'skimp' on if you can say that these days, such as network, sound and graphics(onboard sound and net, low to mid-range graphics card - NVIDIA GT610 2GB RAM - I'll probably have to replace it since the fan on it doesn't work anymore though, )

As for the speakers to my PC - I have still been using these labtec speakers since 1999 because well they work just fine, sound great even today - and well I don't really like the design of speakers these days, compared to what I have for all these years.


Thus again leaving me room to add more ram, or an SSD hd and a conventional hd too, computer case, PSU - the only other recycled device I would have to not worry about, is my LG optical drive which burns triple-layered blu-rays (yes I still rock optical media )

So what is the most money that you have spent on a computer peripheral/accesory recently or in general?

Keeping old stuff - part of me wants to set up a few 1998/99 computers with 512-768 M of added RAM and let them loose on the web with Debian or Lubuntu or Puppy maybe.

BLEH! Audio Card & Graphics Card and/or Sound Card Network Card , I mean to say Other for 'sound card' since it was already posted, oh well *sigh*.


Nice.

I had my AMD K6-2 for over 10 years, but sadly even Slackware started becoming too heavy for it. My now 3 year old i7 is still rocking considering that I mess with VMs a lot. My only issue is well, storage space (only a 2TB conventional HD) - processing power (i7-3370K @ 3.50GHz is great and my RAM (32GB MAXED) is great. Since I am not much of a gamer, I get a lot out of my machines.

I still can't believe I spent $600+ on that printer lol - but perhaps there are things I just wouldn't skimp out on vs I would, again for me an integrated LAN and soundcard is fine, I would spend a little more on a graphics card as I alluded before, but wouldn't go all out. I do not know if still in this day that an integrated graphics card would be a performance hit, but I feel that at least for graphics, it should be independent and no sharing of sys. resources. I am sure though that could be the same for certain sound applications and even networking, but I feel that onboard graphics take the most resources still, but I could be wrong? *shrug*

Lol. I went overboard with the printers too. Cheap $2xx range monochrome laser for general documents and a canon pro 100 for colour stuff. The canon certainly is not cheap by any means but if you see what comes out of it... I stopped going to the photo labs for general prints because with this thing the colours are just the way they appear on screen. Also for big size prints it is faster and cheaper than the photo labs.

interestingly each and every of my components or devices (pc, android, speakers...) cost 100€ or less, new or used.

but recently i had to get a new mobo, processor and ram and decided to throw in a new hd as well - so that added up to 300-something.

much more interesting would be a poll "what was the best value for money you ever got".

I guess it would be my Brother MFC printer, a few years ago. Now days I do not spend alot...cheapskate!

Bought an Intel 8008 microprocessor for over $100 when it first came out in 1972 for the C-MU EE lab. That was one month's rent at the time.

Calculate that for inflation is around $586


It is interesting that the majority so far are for printers - whether it is laser or inkjet though - but I did not specify.

Other than actually buying the computers themselves, I have mostly spent on storage (HDD, SSD, pendrives, & sd cards) & ram upgrades.

I did buy a case & PSU once, but mostly it was on HDD/SSD, pendrives & SD cards.

(I used to like to install various distros on external media.)

As to printers, I haven't owned one since around the year 2000 - it was a 9 pin dot matrix.

As I tend to take my computers as they come, I can't point to internal components other than the occasional HDD and, almost 30 years ago, my first modem and my first sound card.

Easily the single most expensive bit of kit I've purchased was my HP L7680 Officejet Pro, at just under $400.00 when I bought it ten years ago. It recently went to the great recycling center in the sky, but, by the time it did, as my old auto mechanic used say, it didn't owe me a dime.

In late 1990 I got a new HP LaserJet III with a Postscript module, total around $2000.00. I still have it, it may even still work although it hasn't been turned on for over 10 years, and probably full of spiders & such since it's out in the garage.

So, lets say, around $3,826.92, for inflation whew! I am also assuming it was just a monochrome printer, perhaps with no extra features? I.E my HP 553n has expandable memory up to 1GB, multiple trays and network connectivity.


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Ick, spiders - Kill it with fire!

LaserJet III was monochrome only. The postscript cartridge was a few hundred bucks in those days from PacificPage. GB of memory in printers didn't exist, check out this ad page from 1990 or so where 2MB printer memory was just barely over $200.00

https://books.google.com/books?id=u1...script&f=false

computer hardware inflation or currency inflation?

Currency inflation.