We had an HP laptop running Vista Pro for over ten years. Far too long, because it couldn't handle modern apps, and it needed a new screen (store warranty), and the DVD drive would no longer write, and the Bluetooth had died, but the rest of the thing was chugging along. We decided to say goodbye to it a few months ago only because it had begun to act a little funny. It's still in the basement, just in case :o)
The iPad, though, I need to be able to handle all the new apps as fast as possible, since I spend hours on it every day, and all those little waits add up to one *big* loss of time. The iPhone is a sore spot. I almost never use the damned thing as a phone, but it gets used in place of an iPod most of the time (music, abooks, ebooks) because of the bigger screen. I would *love* to throw it away, though and use just the iPod and the Kindle. Unfortunately, smartphones have become almost necessary - and are becoming even more so. So it gets updated with every new CPU.
What would be lovely would be if the technology - hw and sw and fw - would all just s l o w d o w n. I hate having to continually re-buy all this stuff. It's a curse.
If 6 years are the idea then I used Toshiba lap top bought in 1987 for 12- 13 years. The battery was replaced by company supplied battery once, then another locally rigged up battery and finally there was no replacement available.By 1995, I was still playing chess on it but battery would not last the whole game. I did not like playing with it connected to power.
It was finally abandoned in 2001 but was still in working condition.
With best wishes,P. K. Saha>> What ever happened to the notion that building something to last was a very good idea?
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> That concept was given decent burial ages ago in consumer electronics where the progress meant faster, better and cheaper every year.
> PKS
What do you mean by "last"?
I used by Amiga 4000 computer for 6 years after the company went out of business, when it finally died and there was no one to resuscitate it.
Plenty of people are using Mac laptops and desktops in excess of 6 years old.
Microsoft, by their ads, seems to think that today's 2-year-olds will "grow up" using Windows 10.
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