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 do not burn through my laptops all that fast either my current one is about 5 years old. But when I upgrade I expect more(ram,cpu,disk). In either case it will not be upgrading to something like a raspberry pi in a nice package. Hence my original problem with the original post. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||