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It's an amazing lifespan for anybody who has ever operated a windows laptop.
by toasterlovin 8y ago
It's an amazing lifespan for anybody who has ever operated a windows laptop.
- scarface74 8y agoI have a 10 year old Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz running Windows 10 being used as a Plex Server. It’s only slow when overtaxed because I haven’t bothered upgrading to 8GB of RAM or replace the hard drive with an SSD. Luckily it has a gigabit Ethernet port so it can take full advantage of my gig internet.
- madengr 8y agoThat’s an issue with windows, not the laptop. I’m happy enough with the Dell XPS and Linux that I have bought 3.
- batiudrami 8y agoMy Asus UX31A is six years old and still going strong. It's a pity the RAM is soldered in at 4GB but certainly not worth replacing the entire laptop for it. And it wasn't top of the line - about $1300 as I remember. Perhaps you just haven't really used a windows laptop recently and only remember the old days when Windows laptops really did only have a life span of about 3 years.
- axlee 8y agoNot really, Thinkpads are known for being built like trucks since the 90s.
- pjmlp 8y agoMy Windows laptops had a average of 5 years, minimum. Maybe one should take care about where to service them from?
- p2t2p 8y agoMy Thinkpad x201 from 2011 is doing just fine. Java dev, webdev, IntelliJ Idea and VSCode just flies on it. Yeah, no 4k for you though.