How Old is Your Computer?

[Mike Rotch]

My Lenovo Y510 was bought 3 years ago now. The case is cracking, there are some wires hanging out the back and its running Vista 👎.

But still going strong!

 

[Lain]

My MacBook Pro is about 6 months old. It replaced my IBUYPOWER laptop, which was about 6 months old at the time. Which itself replaced my Toshiba Satellite, also 6 months old at the time of replacement.

Hmm... guess it's time to replace my MacBook Pro!

Just kidding. But in the next 6-12 months I may get an iMac.

 

[Skython]

How old is my computer?

Too old!

 

[Korza]

How old is too old?

My laptop is 6 years old which is being replaced this year, my family desktop is 3 years old but can still keep up with most new computers and my deskto, which doesn't work, is 2 years old.

 

[BryCivicSi]

Bought my Mac Pro in early 2008 so that'd be 3 1/2 years now and it's going strong thank god. A $2400 computer better last me a decade. lol!

 

[Robin]

My desktop which is a custom build is coming up to 6 years old now, its had a few hardware upgrades and gone from XP to W7. Does the job for what I need right now but might buy a whole new system in the near future. My Laptop is about the same age.

Robin.

 

[homeforsummer]

Using a netbook I bought less than a year ago because it's convenient for travelling and I don't play PC games or anything that needs a lot of power.

That said, I've just bought a 2GM RAM upgrade because with a few windows and programs open everything starts to slow down and it's been getting on my nerves recently...

 

[20832]

The actual PC of mine is about 4 Years old, but since only mire DVD - Drive is left from this PC, I consider my PC "less than a year" old.

I bought new Mainboard, RAM, CPU, PSU and all that stuff new in January.

 

[Borna12345]

10 years but constantly upgraded to the standards. Was a very powerful machine when it came out.

 

[Car-less]

7 month old computer in a 7 year old case that I have had for about 4 years.
Optical drives are as old as the case, PSU is a few months older than the other internals.

I like to think of it as a sleeper - looks old and knackered, but goes very well.

 

[bevo]

Custom builds require more work, for warrenty, restoring, and other tasks.
Name brands have someone that can come to you're place and fix it and restoring is easy as pressing a key.

I just built one about 2 months ago. If I would have bought it from alienware or another company it would have been pushing the 4000$ mark. I built it for under 2000$. I would easily take the risk of something going wrong with it and save 1500$ and build it myself. It took about 3 hours to get together and install all the software, so unless you want to pay dell or whoever 500$ an hour to put your computer together, I think the work that goes into it is worth it.

My gaming desktop is 2 months old.
compaq laptop almost 3 years old.
macbook 3 years old.
imac 4 years old.

For the mac and pc debate. My imac doesn't work at all, except to be a picture frame with the screen saver. The macbook is really slow now, the disk drive is broke and touchpad button is starting to die. But my 250$ 3 year old windows laptop still works great. I use to really like the macs, but they just are no way worth the money they cost. Never again will I buy one.

 

[ECGadget]

Hmmm...
My Laptop: 1 year
Family Laptop: 3 years
Media PC: 4 years (Built, upgrades every so often, has a new GPU (1 year old))
Family PC: 5 Years (Built, latest upgrade was a new 1tb HDD)
Old family laptop: 10 years

 

[itsbenjibrand]

Ah, my pc is from 1999. It runs Windows Milennium Edition, has a 27 GB Hard Drive and 128 MB of RAM, good enough to play DVDs, and NHL 2002.

 

[ECGadget]

Ah, my pc is from 1999. It runs Windows Milennium Edition, has a 27 GB Hard Drive and 128 MB of RAM, good enough to play DVDs, and NHL 2002.

Hehe, I have one in the loft that was in service from 1996 - 2008, but it was constantly upgraded and in 2003 I even replaced (with the help of my father since I was only 10) the motherboard and almost every component. DDR Memory for the first time!

 

[comcastic08]

4 Year Old Hp Pavilion dv6871us Laptop. 3 GB Ram Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS Intel Core 2 Duo. Boy this Laptop runs Counter Strike Source at 60-140 FPS. Highest in Minecraft is 303FPS Haha.

 

[Daniel]

A 2003 HP Pavilion (^ ) a340a: 240GB and a 40GB hard drive, Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 1.5 DDR RAM (not DDR3 or even DDR2!) and (get this).... a 64mb Integrated graphics controller. I lag on TM Nations

 

[Sharky.]

Pff, the computer I was using in 2002 (HP Pavilion 8960) had a wheezy 1.3GHz single-core Athlon, 128MB of RAM, a 32MB Nvidia Riva TNT2 and 40GB hard drive

 

[Robin]

Yeah I also had a computer with a 1.3Ghz Athlon back in the day and damn those things ran hot... I can't believe it cost over a £1000!

I've still got it as a second comp, run's XP fine.

 

[Sharky.]

I think ours cost NZ$2700 back then with a 5-year warranty! It was running XP, then it sorta died a few years ago - well, the video card went kaput - and we replaced it with a 2GHz dual-core Vista piece of junk with a gig of RAM for like a grand. Hooray for deflation

 

[Robin]

Yeah thank goodness for deflation and tech getting cheaper to produce.

Your lucky Sharky that you got XP with it, mine was bought slightly before XP and for my grand I got Microsoft's proudest achievement, the operating system of perfection known as Windows Me.

 

[itsbenjibrand]

I forgot to mention my desktop is a HP Pavillion XE793 Model.

 

[jacnob]

6 Year old PC with Windows XP and No service packs. And a newer PC to, but it sucks as well.

 

[chug-a-bug]

My current rig I built 3 or 4 years ago, time for a rebuild

My PS3 on the other hand is a 4 or 5 year old 40GB phat that I upgraded to 320GB and was 2nd hand when I bought it

 

[Grayfox]

First PC i had was an IBM.

It had(if i remember)
64MB SD RAM
667Mhz Celeron CPU
Onboard video(don't even know RAM size)
CD-RW
10GB PATA 66 HDD
Windows ME

 

[bevo]

First PC i had was an IBM.

It had(if i remember)
64MB SD RAM
667Mhz Celeron CPU
Onboard video(don't even know RAM size)
CD-RW
10GB PATA 66 HDD
Windows ME

The first one I had was a commodor 64. It had 64k of ram(at least I think that's right), and it ran dos. You make mine look like a super computer. And by the way the 64 still works(at least last time I checked) and my imac doesn't.

 

[12thgear]

My MacBook Pro is from early 2008. It's seen some abuse.

The Mac mini is from early 2009. Combined with an SSD it's a great everyday machine.

The PC is... complicated. It's a Core 2 Quad Q6600. CPU and motherboard are from 2008, but I acquired them secondhand in early 2010 for pretty cheap. I put them in a nice case, added a mid-range GPU, and a really nice power supply, and overclocked. It still feels like a great machine today and handles 1080p gaming just fine.

 

[N99GT]

1TB is not a moster tower.

I have 5TB and it is still not enough.

really?! what 'stuff' do you have!?! LOL

my lappy still has the new smell from from Sony!!! >< (round 4 months old!)

 

[Ibonibo]

Game Rig has 3 and a half years and still rocking sky high (Go to related thread with Win P.I.)

Server has 1.5 years and still rocking

 

[Dennisch]

My laptop is 3 years old, Acer 7520.
And my desktop is continuous evolving, so it's hard to tell.

 

[Grayfox]

really?! what 'stuff' do you have!?! LOL

Movies, music, games, various downloads.