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I wonder if anyone has studied how the average frequency of personal computer buying, i.e., average number of years for a person to buy a new computer, has chan

I wonder if anyone has studied how the average frequency of personal computer buying, i.e., average number of years for a person to buy a new computer, has changed over time since 80s, 90s, and what factors explain the differences. I think I usually can go about 5 years before I start feeling the need to buy a new one. I wonder if that's frequent or not or average.

rektide 3y ago
It's never been perf for me. I still use my msi gx66 with a hd5870 (2010) for some on the go gaming-ish, every now and then. I was trying to use a Vaio P (shitty atom) in 2016 but even after sinking money in couldn't get it to live on battery (should try again with a USB-c pack & fixed barrel jack output cable!). I just bought another 5 year old Samsung Book 12 detachable. If you ignore the fact that I buy repeats sometimes, be cause a) they're cheap (under $300) b) I like having one wherever I go rather than toting & re-setting up, I'm around 4 years. But it's because I want something different in form, some capability I have unserved. I went from ultraportable to affordable-value to gaming to detachable to bigger detachable with oled. With steam play, it's kind of awesome that I never need to consider buying a gaming laptop ever again. With 5g latency really did drop a lot. A while ago I'd done the dance & setup an aws based gaming machine & that was fun, showed me that if I do want to play FPS and am physically far from home, I can set up a cloud box that will again have good latency.