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. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
