I agree. Sometimes my patients go to Walk-In care AT WAL-MART (sorry Scott). They get diagnosed with strep and are treated appropriately, they just don't know that liquid penicillin tastes horrible.
If they come to their doctor and pay a bit more (I know, WIC costs more), they get better care.
How many DIMMs are there for RAM on the "cheap" computer?
A friend of mine who has done networking for 29 years states that doctors choose to pay less than any other profession. It's the get what you pay for thing.
And three years was a bit low, which is what prompted this discussion. My computers are going on five years now with a video card here and a hard drive there.