Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by sargun on Sunday August 07, 2016 @02:50PM
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You can have a computer last far more than 3 years. If you buy a desktop PC, and you upgrade it, and do maintenance on it over the course of its life, it can last 7-10 years (I have seen some of these beasts in offices), but you usually spend as much as a new computer.
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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by majewsky on Sunday August 07, 2016 @03:03PM
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Not just desktops. I'm typing this on a 2012 Asus Zenbook, which did not have any hardware problems so far (unless you count that one screw that came loose last year). Even the battery is still going strong: `acpi -V` reports "design capacity 5871 mAh, last full capacity 5070 mAh = 86%".
Of course, chances are that any other notebook might fail sooner, and I assume that my careful handling has increased the longevity of the device.
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by khedoros on Monday August 08, 2016 @03:11AM
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I have a Ship of Theseus desktop built in 2001. Then I replaced some hard drives. Then I replaced the motherboard+CPU+RAM. Then I replaced the video card. Then the hard drives...etc, etc. Currently, it's got a 2008 CPU+RAM, a 2010 mobo, drives from 2006-2014, a 2012 GPU, and it's about to get a 2016 PSU, because that just blew yesterday. It's hard to say how old a computer like that is ;-)