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Re:The iPad Mystery by ams6110 on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:20AM (#14341753)
I've been using 5+ year old kit at home for a long time. In fact my main PC is about 10 years old right now.

I buy from the local college surplus when they life-cycle their desktops. For what I do at home (browsing, email, youtube, ssh for work) they are more than adequate.

Re:The iPad Mystery by falcolas on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:35AM (#14341875)
I do as well, but when I built it, I was doing so with the thought that I would have to replace a lot of components every other year. It's a gaming rig that I maxed out - and it's still capable of playing the latest games on maximum settings at 1920x1080. It's not as good at 4k with the latest titles, but that doesn't bother me a lot.

So despite my plan to replace components constantly, I haven't actually had to do it. This has made me realize how little practical value constant upgrades to these components now provides.