How we measure PC prices, and why the average listing price lies
Averaging what's on sale today tells you which machines got listed, not what happened to prices. The fix is the same one inflation statistics use: follow the same machine over time.
Notes & analysis
How the Plug PCs catalog is built and what the market data actually says — methodology, data notes and buying advice from a cross-brand computer catalog. Published irregularly — when something in the data is worth a paragraph, not on a content schedule.
A server is not a big laptop: why our value table now derives its own tiers
A fixed 8/16/32/64 GB ladder is a laptop ladder. Applied to servers it produced four rows with the same answer, and applied to single-board computers it produced an empty grid. Here's the fix.
The permanent sale: what a struck-through price is actually worth
Some manufacturers list a price that has never been the selling price, so the machine is eternally 60% off. Here's how to spot it, and how we keep it out of our discount figures.
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New posts land in the notes feed (RSS). For price movement rather than prose, the price-drop feed carries the biggest genuine in-stock discounts across every brand, and the price index is updated continuously. Everything here is free to cite with a link.