Re: This has always been my expectation
> You must be quite young.
Why, thank you! But I'm the opposite of young. When I first learned to program, I did so on punched cards (not kidding!)
> 10 years of life might of been doable in some cases, but system speed increases and RAM requirements were rolling in much faster than they have been since about 2000.
You're talking about a different thing than I. I was talking about how long the machine will continue to function, not necessarily how long you actually use it. That said, I've never owned a machine that I stopped using before it broke badly enough to not be worth repairing. When I needed to replace it with something faster, I'd just put the old machine to a different use. I still have a couple of machines that were manufactured in the '70s that work just fine today. 10 years is nothing.
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