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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by EpicEng on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:41PM (#12569051)
>I'm not sure what the lifetime of a computer is. In my family, we are still occasionally running machines from circa 1995.

Pretty sure it's not 21 years, c'mon...

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by retro64 on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:06AM (#12582425)
1995 is a stretch for anything modern but I have kids playing Minecraft on Pentium 4’s (with decent graphic cards though - that is the critical part). These boxes would have been new around 2003 or so.
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