I heard similar story probably a hundred times over the years about wrong initial choices. Whole 8(Amstrad/Spectrum instead of Atari/C64) 16bit (ST instead of Amiga) computers, cpu (386SX, Cyrix, K6, P4 Celeron, P4 generation on intel side in general, AMD Bulldozer) or cpu socket(anything ss7 instead of slot1 Celeron 300A), graphic cards (too many to list), motherboard chipset (via/sis instead of intel), ram (P4 with sdram), Zune :) etc. It always ends in the same way with victim seemingly doubling down and choosing to endure the pain out of spite instead of doing the logical thing and selling off bad components. Very weird way of coping with cognitive dissonance by being stubborn with a mix of post-purchase rationalization/Stockholm syndrome. And no, its not always about money, some of examples I stumbled upon were worse and more expensive (picking ss7 platform in 1998 is one great example).