Rahvin writes:
As a person who worked selling computers around a decade ago...average PC purchase prices were above $1000. Most people would spend around $1500 on a new PC.
I don't doubt that you sold computers for those prices, but I don't think those were average prices. I would not spend 1000-1500 for a computer, but people who want bleeding edge stuff still spend that much and even more now. I've never spent $1500 for a computer and I've had home computers since the early 1980s.