@Lilysmom wrote:
@gardenman, thank you for the information, all of it news to me. Wouldn't it be great if Windows 10 was the last version? My experience with them trying to force people to make the conversion really turned me off. My HP IS 5+ as I mentioned above. I blocked the Windows 10 update. I would rather stay with Win 7 and, when ready, buy a computer with 10 as an OS if I were to do Windows again.
I priced the new Mac laptop and it is up there...$2645 Canadian taxes included without the dongles required for hookup. Do you think it would last ten years?
I will ponder this more. Everything else I own is apple. I will watch for feedback on the new Windows computer.
Thanks for taking the time to give some input. I learned something thanks to you. LM
I wouldn't count on any computer lasting ten years. It might, but about the most you can typically squeeze out of a computer is seven to eight years. By then the technology will have changed and the old hardware will be obsolete. My first computer, a first generation Pentium computer still worked up until about a year ago when I finally got tired of seeing it and turned it into my local Radio Shack. It was technically still working even then, but was so obsolete it was largely useless. (I kept it more for nostalgia than anything. Every now and then I'd fire it up and putter around with it, but it was largley useless.)
I've gotten cheap in my older years and I don't need a top of the line computer for 99% of what I do, so I'm now more looking at the refurbished computers. Sites like Newegg have decent refurbs, some with a full one year warranty, for as little as under $100. They typically have new or newer operating systems and are cheaper than I can upgarde an older computer.
There's a big business now in renting computers out to businesses and when the lease is done (often one to three years) those computers get returned. A one to three year old computer still has quite a bit of life left ahead of it and getting it for $100 or so, is a pretty good deal. Nearly impossible to beat as a matter of fact. Even if you have to replace it every two years, it's not a big deal at that price. If you can squeeze three or four years out of it, it's an even better deal.
The companies that rent out computers to businesses and schools find themselves swamped in returned computers when the leases expire. The next leasee wants a newer model, so the old ones get refurbed and sold for a very low price. It's very much a buyers market these days. If you don't have huge demands for a computer, the refurbs are the way to go. The prices are kind of ridiculous these days.
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