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> Meanwhile, the only PCs I know of that survive time quite as well Nah, everything works forever, it's just that no one cares. My younger child retired a 377
by ajross 1y ago
> Meanwhile, the only PCs I know of that survive time quite as well
Nah, everything works forever, it's just that no one cares. My younger child retired a 3770K Ivy Bridge box last year that I'd bought at or near release in 2012, so ~11 years of steady use.
People fetishize Apple hardware, but the truth is that modern electronics manufacturing is bulletproof up and down the assembly lines.
- fc417fc802 1y agoThe ICs, yeah. Not so much power supplies, screens, etc. I've had the former go up in flames and the later delaminate - my current laptop has small bubbles around the edges of the screen. I've also had high wattage GPUs inexplicably fail and lost a few SSDs to unexpected catastrophic failure. TBF I haven't lost any halfway decent SSDs within the past 5 years. I don't think I've ever lost a motherboard, CPU, or RAM though. Even secondhand recycled data center stuff. It seems to just keep working forever.