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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by DeathArrow on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:01AM (#43566375)
>ThinkPads are durable but every day they get older, slower and more difficult to source parts for as collectors entrench themselves and the requirements of operating systems (and the "modern web") worsen

That's true for every computer. But people still buy old C64, Amiga, Atari, IBM or Apple computers.

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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by criddell on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:41AM (#43569490)
> But people still buy old C64, Amiga, Atari, IBM or Apple computers.

Not in meaningful numbers.

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