On 08/27/2016 11:34 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
The reason for laptop upgrades is often needing more memory or disk
space but by the time you get there 2-3 years down the road the keyboard
has food bits under it and the touch pad is wearing out so getting a new
laptop is the way to go.
I had a Thinkpad from around 2000 that lasted more than a decade; it
was solid hardware and I didn't abuse it. And ultimately Moore's Law
caught up with it, even though I'd maxed out RAM once that got cheap
and upgraded the hard drive.
I could probably haul it out today and get it booted, but why bother?
Lesson from that is buy it to use it not coddle it, and plan to upgrade
in not more than five years. Though maybe Moore's Law is levelling out?
I also had a ThinkPad from that vintage, an R31, IIRC. It worked well,
but I eventually bought a new E520, as the R31, while still usable
wasn't keeping up with the software.
If we are into playing mine is bigger ^h^h^h^h^h older then yours...