Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Holy moly, do they ever. So where most things in this world keep going up in prices, computers and peripheral prices continue to fall in price. From September to October it dropped by 0.8% to 36.4 (for commercial computers), but the start of the index which is 100, was in 2001, so that means prices have effectively dropped almost 65% since 2001? Wow! For consumer computers it dropped 2.3% and the index is now at around 17. Wow!

So why are computers the only industry where this happens (or so it seems to a lay person such as myself)? Anybody got good ideas?

My other question is what are they comparing to here? Are they saying the price of the same computer in 2001 is now 64% less, or is this a comparable computer in 2006 terms? Good questions these, wonder what the answers are?