On 08/27/2016 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 do not burn through my laptops all that fast either my current one is about 5 years old. But when I upgrade I expect more(ram,cpu,disk).
In either case it will not be upgrading to something like a raspberry pi in a nice package. Hence my original problem with the original post. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 [email protected] ||
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