What is the average cost of a computer in pounds?

Answer 1

i'd say £500 av

Answer 2

i'm in the "piece of string" camp. it depends on exactly what you mean... please give us more info on what you're on about!

various ways of interpreting your question, and the answers to go with:

1/ Q: what's the average selling price of a brand-new home PC on the UK market?
A: Don't know, you'd have to find some industry journal's yearly review to look that up in, and even then the data wouldn't be too accurate as it would only really cover the major outlets - some large online sellers may not be included, almost all small stores would be skipped, and home-building or tiny bespoke outlets would be totally missed. Still it would be largely right. My own estimate is somewhere around £500 to £700 for desktops, and £650 to £850 for laptops. There will be budget systems much cheaper, and performance ones much more expensive, this is just the common middle ground, with typical point of sale upgrades, desirable software and printer packages etc. Typically a mac or big-badge PC will be about £100 more expensive as you're buying the brand.

2/ Q: How cheaply can a brand new PC be bought for in the UK?
A: Depends where you go, but the bottom dollar (ok, bottom quid) at the moment seems to be about £200 for desktops and £300 for laptops... but you'd do as well to go secondhand, really, for the quality of kit you'd get, as it will be shockingly basic. The spec might be slightly better than what you could get equivalent used, and/or the battery a bit fresher, but the secondhand one will be more solidly made and nicer to use, plus the laptop's battery will likely both be higher overall capacity and not drained as heavily by the circuits..

3/ Q: What is the average selling price of any new computer in the UK?
A: Impossible to tell. Likely under £50, as this term covers a hell of a lot of things, from massive, multimillion pound supercomputers, down to the ubiquitous digibox TV decoder (which likely has an intel 2, 3 or 486 embedded chip running it), pocket databanks, mobile phones, car engine control units and kiddies V-tech toys. There's no way you'll find a statistic on this.

4/ Q: What is the average price of any home PC sold in the UK?
A: Ditto 3... you may buy a spanking new top of the range Sony laptop for the best part of 4 grand... or you could get someone's old Pentium-133 out of the newspaper classifieds for £35 (and in a lot of ways it'll still be a very competent machine - it was blazing back in 1995 and the largest chunk of non-media/non-internet PC use hasn't changed recognisably since)... etc. There's no way you could even start to collect data for such as statistic, as you don't even have a chance of guessing the population size you're gathering samples for.

4a/ Q: What's the lowest selling price of any home PC?
A: Zero, or possibly a small negative number (the previous owners pay the new one to "dispose" of it). Perfectly good, still competent systems of yesteryear are now so conceptually worthless compared to modern ones that they're routinely thrown away, donated to charity, passed down/sideways through families/to friends, recycled, offered as "free to a good home" etc.

5/ Q: What's the average selling price of any computer in the UK?
A: Stick 3 and 4 in a blender and you'll have your answer. Impossible to say, but it's almost certainly going to be low, low, low, given the thriving second hand and "salvage"/reclaim/refurb markets. Again, you could go get yourself a pretty well-stacked server for £2000 from a company liquidation (or pay £10,000 for a new one), or pick up someone's classic ZX spectrum / C64 for 25p from a jumble sale (the poor ignorant fools!), an Amiga for £1, etc.

all in all an almost impossible question, it's a magnitude worse than the used car market (where similar effects happen, but are at least a lot slower and less severe, are tempered by how well you look after the machine, never see values drop to zero unless the car is unusable, etc), but i'm hoping no.1 solves it for you.

Answer 3

New, I doubt if you will get anything under about £250. Most family sizes multi media computers are from £800 to £1000 for a first time computer with Internet connection, flat screen and medium spec around £500 to £600.
My advice from personal experience is only consider a second hand purchase from a reputable suppler or if you know someone who can fix them up.

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Answer 4

its all depends what u r buying. if u r looking for desktop computer average cost is between 200 - 500. and if u r buying laptop then 400-700. to check the available deals and computer click. www.dell.co.uk

Answer 5

depends on wot ur looking for it to do between 300 and 500 pounds try pc world emachines are good ive got 3 of them

Answer 6

£175 for an economy one
£300 for a mediocre one
£500 for a moderate one
£1000 for a good one
£2500 for an exceptional one.

Answer 7

The same as a length of string in pounds.

Answer 8

it depends what you want, a laptop starts at £399 (in pc world)
and a computer/modem etc for a office is probably around £799 now, although it all depends on what make you want

Answer 9

Crap... £200. Singing and dancing £2000.

Reasonably good, $300 to £500

Answer 10

between £300 and £1500, depends what quality you want