On 2019-03-08 12:36 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
My current main notebook is just over 5 years old and still great. I haven't had to repair it -- thank goodness, since it is an Ultrabook(TM). This is partly because, knowing that upgrades would be very hard, I pushed all the specs when I bought it.
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.
My current main desktop is just a little older. It's still Just Fine.
I used to replace my desktop much more quickly. Or at least want to.
I bought my desktop computer about 13 years ago, but have upgraded the mom board a couple of times and also disk drives.