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> Stuff gets obsolete very quickly these days. What do you mean these days? Computers used to obsolete within months in the 90s as ever-faster CPUs kept coming
by jjav 5y ago
> Stuff gets obsolete very quickly these days.
What do you mean these days? Computers used to obsolete within months in the 90s as ever-faster CPUs kept coming out.
No longer true, with the death of Moore's Law. Computers from 2010 are still quite usable (I have several, servers & laptop) since speed increases over the last decade are incremental at best.
I've been buying computers since the 80s and now is the golden age of longevity for equipment.
- 0ldskool 5y agoWell longevity in terms of "not much performance increases per generation" but the quality of goods isn't necessarily there. My middle mouse button of my thinkpad just randomly fell a day ago. I don't think I've ever even used the middle button... My laptop is about 3years old and for the first 2years was barely used because I used a different machine... My old pixel 3 phone had a few issues with it too. The USB-C port stopped working perfectly after a software update and wasn't being rma'd at the time. Battery bulge popped off the back. I wish devices were made to last for at least 10years, only my modular desktop with haswell gen CPU has lasted that long. I downgraded it from daily to something else.