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

[James Knott]

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.