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"(15 years or something like that)" I'm curious how you came up with that number? Are you currently still using anything PC related from 2002?
by abtinf 10y ago
"(15 years or something like that)"
I'm curious how you came up with that number? Are you currently still using anything PC related from 2002?
- Neliquat 10y agoNot op, but basically: Most of my pc cases are easily 15 years old. They have been upgraded when needed and have none of the same parts, but at no point did I have to trash the entire thing and start over. Just the simple standard of having mobos and pss fit has been incredibly useful in decreasing waste, both physical and monitary. Obviously this whole poiny is moot with apples current hardware strategy becoming even more untouchable black box like. And i'm on HN so I obviously use a model M from the late 80s early 90s. No scarcasm here.
- vbezhenar 10y agoMy old computers are working fine. I've gifted them to other people, but I care about devices working for a long time. But really nowadays computers are not progressing that much. Unless something very revolutionary happens, the difference between 2017 and 2032 computer will be much less than difference between 2002 and 2017. So it's perfectly reasonable to assume that people will use computers from 2017 (especially high-end computers) after 15 years.
- FireBeyond 10y agoI feel skeptical about that. 2002 was seeing Pentium IIIs being released that could support usually a maximum of 256MB of RAM (512MB on the very latest high end models). I don't see much in the way of web browsing these days working with that.