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40 months! Silly me, I've been on the ten year plan. I just refreshed my hardware as my old gaming rig (top of the line at the time) couldn't run LLM engines o
by slowmovintarget 3y ago
40 months! Silly me, I've been on the ten year plan.
I just refreshed my hardware as my old gaming rig (top of the line at the time) couldn't run LLM engines or diffusers without overloading the power supply and shutting down in the middle of a run.
I switched to Linux in the process (no Win 11 for me). The only reason for not going Mac desktop is that Nvidia is still the king of the hill for ML workloads.
- ksec 3y ago>40 months! Silly me, I've been on the ten year plan. The OP missed out a word, it should be the average upgrade cycle for PC ( or specifically Laptops ) is about 40 months. But if you look at Data closely, lots of company buy a new laptop for their employees every 24 months. Some even gets 12 months as some sort of perks. If you ignores these outliner you will see average drops to 50 to 60 months.
- pjmlp 3y agoFrom my experience, guarantee happens to be three years, but they only get actually replaced when they brake, battery dies, or are no longer able to fulfil project requirements, which means a five year turnover on average. Maybe FAANG are a bit more open with their wallets.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoYes, at work, it's this. three to five years... stretch if you can. But if the machine is struggling to compile, it isn't worth wasting the time of my engineers on a problem new hardware can fix. I can usually trust my people to spend some time yak-shaving before they'll ask, so when they ask I take it seriously. But for personal, non-work equipment... different story. I'll use it until I can't anymore.