"Buying a printer remains the last confusing part of modern computing."
Graphics cards are just as bad. RAM can be tricky with all the different types and price points. And how are you supposed to compare between the different CPUs with different numbers of cores, processor speeds, L2 Caches, bus speeds . . .
Everything about buying a computer is complicated for the uninitiated. Even hard drives, which should be a matter of picking the biggest one, have different speeds to complicate matters.
Of course, once you've bought a few printers it will all make perfect sense and you'll forget that it seemed confusing.
normal computer users don't buy graphics cards or care about cpu l2 caches. they buy things like laptops and imacs that just work and they never upgrade them or take them apart.
unless you're an avid gamer, graphics designer, or building your own pc, i don't know why anyone would even care what kind of graphics card their computer has.
Graphics cards are just as bad. RAM can be tricky with all the different types and price points. And how are you supposed to compare between the different CPUs with different numbers of cores, processor speeds, L2 Caches, bus speeds . . .
Everything about buying a computer is complicated for the uninitiated. Even hard drives, which should be a matter of picking the biggest one, have different speeds to complicate matters.
Of course, once you've bought a few printers it will all make perfect sense and you'll forget that it seemed confusing.