My previous laptop Fujitsu N5010 lasted for 6 years - backlight finally died. Otherwise it still works. My Sony laptop before that lasted about 4 years. I must be bucking the stats a bit.
-- Bruce Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 3:45:58 PM, you wrote: sh> On 2010-02-09 16:33 , John Francis wrote: >>> Laptops have a half life around 1 year (a bit less, around 11 months, >>> last time I looked at stats.) sh> my previous MacBook Pro (3 years, 1 month old) has just taken over from sh> an iMac G5 as our home server for backups, iTunes and document scanning; sh> my old 12" PowerBook G4 (5+ years) is still going strong as my partner's sh> laptop, and it served both her and her brother daily for about a year; sh> now that the brother has moved out, we had hoped to give him my sh> partner's previous laptop, a Pismo PowerBook G3 (9+ years old), but it sh> hadn't been started in a year or so and something has gone askew in the sh> power train; fixable, i expect; not going to do much Lightroom on that sh> last one, but the G4 holds up well with Mac OS X 10.5 and iPhoto 09 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
