> I used to think like that - until I analyzed all my PC builds over the last 12 years and realized with Intel changing sockets every generation the whole incre

> I used to think like that - until I analyzed all my PC builds over the last 12 years and realized with Intel changing sockets every generation the whole incremental upgrade thing was fond memories from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. Once I realized incremental upgrades wasn't a hill worth dying on my choices increased and I've never been happier with the size/weight/speed/battery life that previous dogma prevented me from even evaluating. Yep. I still have desktop machines and build another every 4 years or so. I used to upgrade machines, but it's just not realistic anymore. If I'm very lucky I'll manage to reuse the case and power supply, but even that's iffy. Stuff's changing too fast, including, as you mentioned, processor sockets. Memory, too. Man, I had some memory in the 2000s that lived through like 3 different machines. Not these days. If I upgraded video cards more often I guess I might manage to do that once per machine, but that'd be it.