On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:45:58PM -0700, steve harley scripsit: > 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.) > > my previous MacBook Pro (3 years, 1 month old) has just taken over > from an iMac G5 as our home server for backups, iTunes and document > scanning; my old 12" PowerBook G4 (5+ years) is still going strong as > my partner's laptop, and it served both her and her brother daily for > about a year; now that the brother has moved out, we had hoped to > give him my partner's previous laptop, a Pismo PowerBook G3 (9+ years > old), but it hadn't been started in a year or so and something has > gone askew in the power train; fixable, i expect; not going to do > much Lightroom on that last one, but the G4 holds up well with Mac OS > X 10.5 and iPhoto 09
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