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A comment on Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop?.

Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by spectramax on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:43AM (#20491827)
4 years, it’s painful.
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Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by segmondy on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:09PM (#20491974)
Why? There's not much difference between 4 years old laptop anymore.
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Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by reilly3000 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:06PM (#20492711)
4 years of physical cruft is something. Gunk deep in the keyboard, tired fan bearings, HD wear- it all adds up to more risk of data loss. That may be a random reboot or data corruption. One or two days of lost work is generally more expensive than a new machine.
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