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Daniel Prince wrote:

How much would the retail cost of a computer power supply or
motherboard etc. increase if they were made to last twice as long?
Five times as long? Ten times as long?

I don't know the specific numbers for those multipliers.

However, I've seen some motherboards for sale recently which proudly
stated that they use all solid-polymer caps in their CPU power supply
circuit. They come at some price-premium but it didn't appear to be
outrageous.

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