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Whenever I reach the point of thinking about getting a laptop to replace my desktop I keep being reminded that my desktop has parts that are at this stage aroun
by pSYoniK 5y ago
Whenever I reach the point of thinking about getting a laptop to replace my desktop I keep being reminded that my desktop has parts that are at this stage around 9 years old. I am reminded that it still does everything I need, it still connects to anything I want, any way I want and it still runs my os(es) of choice without batting an eye. And if a part fails? The used market provides!
I am so sad to see things go down this path and it is so frustrating to see common sense beaten to death by some product manager, marketing vp or CEO saying that thin, light and unrepairable is the future...
- secondcoming 5y agoMy desktop is a 4790k, so maybe not far off the age of your system. I had to buy a laptop due to covid and, to be fair, things have progressed on the laptop front so much that it outperforms my desktop. I now only use the desktop for gaming as I didn't bother getting a discrete GPU on the laptop. The laptop is high-spec and costly (Dell Precision 7750), so much so that I doubt my employer would have bought it for me. So costly, in fact, that it makes no financial sense to upgrade my desktop.
- lostmsu 5y agoI am still using my 6yo Dell Inspiron I got for $500 now and then.
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- ashtonkem 5y agoI ran my second hand Dell computer from work for about half a decade, it cost $75 when I bought it from work after a merger. The CPU finally called it quits, and I parted it out for a profit.