Solar panels are usually sold with 25 to 30 years of performance promises. But what happens after that, when the warranty language is long gone and you are
These days computers are replaced after the 3-year service warranty in many companies, we would just toss them to the recyclers (or the back of my car sometimes if I had a project happening at home…) Occasionally they would find second use somewhere reliability didn’t matter, but a lot of IT managers won’t risk it, production downtime for a $700 PC is not worth it. My last job in a factory I had to get written permission from an IT manager to redeploy an out-of-warranty system, or could be fired when it failed.
accounting depreciation is different from real world performance
Depreciation says a computer evaporates after 3 or 5 years in most companies.
These days computers are replaced after the 3-year service warranty in many companies, we would just toss them to the recyclers (or the back of my car sometimes if I had a project happening at home…) Occasionally they would find second use somewhere reliability didn’t matter, but a lot of IT managers won’t risk it, production downtime for a $700 PC is not worth it. My last job in a factory I had to get written permission from an IT manager to redeploy an out-of-warranty system, or could be fired when it failed.
I see. that’s good for us, since lightly pre-owned corpo laptops are cheap
With planned obselecence they might as well