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

[Alvin Starr]

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.

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