[GTALUG] Voting with our Dollars on Computing Future that Respects our Freedom.

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 27/08/16 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'm still using a ThinkPad X60 (2006) bought in July 2007 and a ThinkPad T61
(2007) from Nov 2007 as my primary machines...

My X60 has a SSD. Both had RAM maxed. The T61 has been shelved for the past year
though, hard drive died and I haven't replaced it yet because the keyboard/fan
need some attention if I'm going to continue to use it. I've used both these
machines heavily...

I've been seriously considering a new machine on and off for about 3 years...
that is, I've been wondering whether or not to buy a new machine for the entire
lifespan of many other people's machines!

Not quite 10 years of use, but the X60 is into its 9th year.

(I feel like there's a bit of a difference between a machine from 2000 in 2010
versus a machine from 2006 in 2016 though... Moore's Law has been applied in a
different way over the last 5-10 years, in that my refurbished X60 might still
be competitive in some ways with some lower-end netbooks sold today, but I the
same wouldn't be true of a laptop from 2000 in 2010.)


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