Garrett said:

Why would someone buy a $1,000-$3,000 computer and never use it and leave it in it's box for like 20 years? That has always amazed me....

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I have a spare NIB Mac mini (mid-2011) that was purchased with the 26 minis deployed in my computer lab/classroom. Unless something evil occurs to one of those 26 in the next two years, it will be retired, unused, and could easily wind up in our basement for a few decades. (Granted, it is only a $600 computer.) Its entire role is to be a spare tire. I can't teach a 26-student Adobe Creative Cloud class without 26 functional workstations. At least that was the logic four summers ago. So far, it has been unnecessary, but that doesn't make it a crazy waste.