| From: James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | My notebook is a Lenovo ThinkPad E520, which I bought 7.5 years ago. | It's still going strong, though I put in a larger hard drive. I've had | a thing for ThinkPads ever since I worked at IBM in the late 90s and | most of my work was on them. I like ThinkPads. But the E520 is heavy and burns a lot of power. My (adult) kids have T520s. But both kids rarely use them because ultrabooks are so much more portable. | I bought my desktop computer about 13 years ago, but have upgraded the | mom board a couple of times and also disk drives. That's a long time. If you replaced the motherboard, I would guess you replaced the processor and RAM at the same time. What's left? - the case (worth ~$50) - perhaps the power supply (but then you won't be able to support modern video cards) - video card (if any): current CPU's built-in GPUs would probably beat it. - the floppy disk (I don't remember the last time I used one). I have an external drive if I need to use a floppy. - the CD or DVD writer. I don't use them that often. I used one last month to create a bootable Fedora live install DVD because of a firmware limitation with a netbook. Booting the netbook required an external DVD reader. I'd just get a new box and leave the old one functioning as long as I had a use and space. (Is it any wonder that I need KVMs?)