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This thread has attracted some hilarious HNers. Over the years, I've learned not to buy shitronics. Not because they have shitty reliability. I avoid buying
by pcurve 12y ago
This thread has attracted some hilarious HNers.
Over the years, I've learned not to buy shitronics.
Not because they have shitty reliability.
I avoid buying shitronics because I run my electronics to the ground.
I'm currently typing this on 9 year old Core 2 Duo Dell that runs plenty fast.
Down in the basement is another Dell about 11 years old that's been running 24/7 for the past 10 years. Unlike my high-end Core 2 Duo Dell, the basement one is a Celeron POS that was a $299 special.
It was slow on day 1 and it is still slow on day 4015, but it keeps chugging along. And every time I use it, I curse myself for not spending a little bit extra for faster machine.
- sireat 12y agoThere are some really cheap options to upgrade that POS, if it is a socket 775 desktop. Core 2 Duo is about the time when Moore's law really started slowing down, that is you can get by just fine with a 9 year old Core 2 Duo. Even if you had bought a top of line CPU(Pentium D?) 11 years ago you it would still be sluggish today.