On 27/08/16 11:34 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > Alvin Starr via talk wrote: >> The reason for laptop upgrades is often needing more memory or disk >> space but by the time you get there 2-3 years down the road the keyboard >> has food bits under it and the touch pad is wearing out so getting a new >> laptop is the way to go. > > I had a Thinkpad from around 2000 that lasted more than a decade; it > was solid hardware and I didn't abuse it. And ultimately Moore's Law > caught up with it, even though I'd maxed out RAM once that got cheap > and upgraded the hard drive. > > I could probably haul it out today and get it booted, but why bother? > > Lesson from that is buy it to use it not coddle it, and plan to upgrade > in not more than five years. Though maybe Moore's Law is levelling out? >
I'm still using a ThinkPad X60 (2006) bought in July 2007 and a ThinkPad T61 (2007) from Nov 2007 as my primary machines... My X60 has a SSD. Both had RAM maxed. The T61 has been shelved for the past year though, hard drive died and I haven't replaced it yet because the keyboard/fan need some attention if I'm going to continue to use it. I've used both these machines heavily... I've been seriously considering a new machine on and off for about 3 years... that is, I've been wondering whether or not to buy a new machine for the entire lifespan of many other people's machines! Not quite 10 years of use, but the X60 is into its 9th year. (I feel like there's a bit of a difference between a machine from 2000 in 2010 versus a machine from 2006 in 2016 though... Moore's Law has been applied in a different way over the last 5-10 years, in that my refurbished X60 might still be competitive in some ways with some lower-end netbooks sold today, but I the same wouldn't be true of a laptop from 2000 in 2010.)
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