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There are many tasks for which speed is not an absolute requirement.

I bet there are lots of places that parallelisation makes more computers within the ballpark of acceptable performance perfectly cromulent to keep around.

Heck, my 2015 mac is a perfectly serviceable media player when I watch sport.

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None of that has anything to do with the accounting change that they made.

With repercussions. If they’re estimating a lifespan extension and later go back to the original estimate, they’ll have huge one-off depreciation charges, no?

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