Computers DO last 30 years, though. Sometimes the capacitors blow, but that's a fairly easy fix, and is a risk in all electronics. The main problem is that com

Computers DO last 30 years, though. Sometimes the capacitors blow, but that's a fairly easy fix, and is a risk in all electronics. The main problem is that computers improve much more quickly than musical instruments, or cars, or whatever. I have computers that are nearly 40 years old that work just as well today as the day they were made, the only problem is these old computers don't run the modern apps we want. They don't have music players, or web browsers, or even convenient Internet access. The computer didn't get worse, the world just moved on. Likewise, your old Core2Duo machine from ten years ago is just as good today, except it was made for an era when Windows fit inside of 256mb of RAM, and javascript was only used to make your cursor a weird color. Computers don't get slower, we just ask them to do more things.