My daughter had an IBook G3 that she used in college for a couple of years. I used it for three or four years after that. She dropped it a few times, and it had some physical damage. The screen connection finally broke, but it had a good, long life. Paul
On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > 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. -- 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.
