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How I Learned the Hard Way That Aging Technology Is Expensive

Harvard Business Review

As chief information officer of my family, I had purchased two used 333 MHz iMac G3s with 160MB of RAM in Bondi blue for my children to play games on. I figured these computers couldn't possibly depreciate much further. Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO.