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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by vetinari on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:23PM (#29959014)
> My next thought was, people buy pre-built desktops still?

If you are enthusiast and need a one or two desktops, then probably not. If you need to procure several hundred of them every few months, then probably yes.

What this definitely will do is to affect the market price of these desktops once the lease (or depreciation time) runs out and owner will try to unload them on second hand market.

Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by mjrpes on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:51PM (#29959874)
How does this affect the 2nd hand market? Will the buyer not be able to use the desktop?
Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by vetinari on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:55PM (#29959923)
Cannot be bought as s source of spare parts, that you might use in different computers. At least not CPUs.