Re: So...a whole new computer?
You'd be better buying a buckling spring keyboard from Unicomp - they'll last forever. There are reasonably priced (60 quid) mechanical keyboards on the market too, as well as the 100 quid plus RGB coloured monstrosities.
As to age of hardware, pfft amateur. My newest monitor is a decent 20" HP TFT from 2010, oldest a pair of CRTs from 2004.. My main system went from a decent system for 2008, to an excellent system for 2013 (I do not have the spare cash to buy new dual Xeons..). Admittedly a lot of it is quite recent - the hard drives, RAID enclosures, case, and PSU are all new. The motherboard is new, but E5-2600 era. Why buy new unless you have to.
Of course I did boot up an SGI O2 running OpenBSD last night. It took ten minutes of disk churning and 50% of CPU to re-link the kernel on boot. High end 1997 tech struggles with a modern OS.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
