"computers getting cheaper to under $1000." maybe not that one :)

y04nn · 2024-07-18T20:05:05 1721333105

Adjusted for inflation, $1000 of 1983 is more than $3000 today.

jethro_tell · 2024-07-18T22:39:38 1721342378

What is that adjusted for average wage?

dpkirchner · 2024-07-19T02:48:30 1721357310

Looks like average wages are up over 4x: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html

ArnoVW · 2024-07-19T07:05:52 1721372752

Maybe not the computers we would buy or like, but you can buy plenty of computers for a couple of hundred dollars.

Hell, you can buy a mobile phone (a computer that fits in your pocket!) for less than that. And don’t get met started about raspberry Pi and the likes.

We are genuinely living in the future. We just don’t realize it all the the time.

nkotov · 2024-07-18T19:49:56 1721332196

Mac mini but previously the iMac G3 was $999.