Re:What to Expect from Old Windows PC's
by valdiorn on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:17AM
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3-5 years I guess is a reasonable expectation, but all of the windows devices I have, have lasted longer than that. And keep lasting.
My Surface Pro 3 is coming up on 6 years, and my XPS 13 is close to 7. And the thing is; I can see ZERO reasons to upgrade. Both devices still have good battery life, and are perfectly fast for any day-to-day jobs I do, including running Visual Studio. I even use my surface for music production and it packs plenty of oomph.
PC improvements have slowed down so much in the last decade, it used to be that every 2-3 years a new computer would run circles around your old hardware. not so anymore.
My main PC, a desktop tower I built in 2013, has received only a handful of upgrades since I built it. A new SSD in 2015, a 2060RTX last year, and just now I bought an NVMe PCIe adapter and a 1tb drive. This thing is basically "top of the line" despite sporting a an almost 8 years old i7 Extreme 4930k.
My Surface Pro 3 is coming up on 6 years, and my XPS 13 is close to 7. And the thing is; I can see ZERO reasons to upgrade. Both devices still have good battery life, and are perfectly fast for any day-to-day jobs I do, including running Visual Studio. I even use my surface for music production and it packs plenty of oomph.
PC improvements have slowed down so much in the last decade, it used to be that every 2-3 years a new computer would run circles around your old hardware. not so anymore.
My main PC, a desktop tower I built in 2013, has received only a handful of upgrades since I built it. A new SSD in 2015, a 2060RTX last year, and just now I bought an NVMe PCIe adapter and a 1tb drive. This thing is basically "top of the line" despite sporting a an almost 8 years old i7 Extreme 4930k.