A couple of points. It is a "general observation" that technology makes huge leaps about every 5 years. Once a new technology comes out it must recover its Development, et al expenses and that may take around 5+ years. Also, in few cases does it make sense to purchase an extended warranty but in the case of a computer it does make some sense. Although the profits on extended warranties can run as high as 90% it does make sense to purchase one on Laptops, etc since the costs of one failure can far exceed the warranty cost. The parts can be expensive. The pricing is done like on cars. The parts are priced so if you tried to order the parts the sum of their expenses would far exceed you buying the computer. There are pretty good profits when doing a memory upgrade. Just some thinking on the subject.
