Laser vs inkjet: why the dead printer is almost always the inkjet
We pulled what evidence exists on the old claim that lasers outlast inkjets. It mostly holds up, the reasons are physical, and the exceptions are specific. Also, the firmware stuff.
Notes & analysis
Methodology, data notes and buying advice from the Plug PCs catalog. Posts appear when the data gives us something to say.
How we measure PC prices, and why the average listing price lies
Averaging today's listings measures which machines got listed, not what prices did. We use the matched-model method instead. Here's the whole recipe.
A server is not a big laptop: why our value table now derives its own tiers
One memory ladder for every category worked fine on laptops and printed the same server four times. The tiers come from the data now.
The permanent sale: what a struck-through price is actually worth
Some machines have been 60% off since the day they launched. How we spot manufactured discounts and keep them out of the numbers.
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New posts land in the RSS feed. The price-drop feed carries the biggest in-stock discounts across every brand, and the price index updates continuously. Everything here is free to cite with a link.