How Old is Your Computer?

How Long Have You Had Your PC/MAC

  • Less than a Year

    Votes: 18 22.8%

  • One Year

    Votes: 10 12.7%

  • Two Years

    Votes: 13 16.5%

  • Three Years

    Votes: 19 24.1%

  • Four Years

    Votes: 8 10.1%

  • Five Years

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • 6 Years + / I don't Have a Computer, I read the Newspaper

    Votes: 7 8.9%
  • Total voters
    79
  • Poll closed .
Already 3 years and just earlier this year it started to give me problems. Last month I had to replace its dying fan and fix the thermal paste etc. Quite a costly fix but... Computers.
 
Well parts of my custom rig are 3 years old and some parts are 4 months old.

My TV tuner card is oldest which is a Hauppauge HVR-2200 while my ram Team Xtreem Black DDR2 1066Mhz is newest at 4 months.
 
I hate my computer it's literally falling apart after 5 years.

Example: The Power button is broken (I know right), the plastic bits on the side are falling off, the screen flickers because the cables have been cut from use, and the rubber bits on the screen are peeling as well. It's a Toshiba Satellite:
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I love it but the relationship just isn't alright anymore. I want a 1TB monster tower PC.
 
PC is 6-7 years old

Laptop is 4 years old

iMac is 4 months old

Gaming PC shall exist in less than 2 months
 
PC is coming up to 6 years old now I think?

This laptop meanwhile has only been here since my last birthday, which was May 22nd. So...not even 4 months yet :lol:
 
I've several. My office PC owes money to the dinosaurs.

My home laptop is about 2 and a half and my movie/ GTP note book is only a few months.

I didn't vote in the poll for obvious reasons.
 
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.
 
My PC is a mish mash of parts and upgrades, but the mobo, ram, processor, sound card, CD drives are all 5 years old. The graphics card, power supply, heat sink and cooling system are about a year old. My hard drives range from 7 years old to 2 months old. The case is something like 7 years old and is way to small for anything.

My Macbook is 2 years old and my Sony Viao is 6 years old.

I'm really in need of a new computer with a better processor and RAM. Mine works for the time being but the newer DDR3 and quad cores have really dropped in price, so I think it's time.
 
Grayfox
Custom builds require more work, for warrenty, restoring, and other tasks.
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Generally if you're building your own computer you know what you're doing, meaning if something goes wrong you'll have no trouble fixing it... besides, most parts come with some form of limited warranty (usually RMA to place of purchase), and said warranty wouldn't be much shorter than a warranty on a prebuilt.

Customs are also far cheaper, name brands use pathetic parts and/or charge 300% extra. *cough* Alienware *cough*

Grayfox
Name brands have someone that can come to you're place and fix it andrestoring is easy as pressing a key.
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Two things. Name brands don't send techs out to people's houses to fix their machines in person, instead they get you to send the "broken" machine to an authorised repair outlet - which is virtually an RMA but for a complete computer. Restoring is also the exact same process irrespective of whether you built your computer yourself or bought it off a store floor, it's not like prebuilts come with super special 1337hax restoration software that you can't get for a custom machine :odd:


As for the topic at hand:

My laptop is 2-3 years old, it's been useless for at least a year now with overheating issues. Built the desktop just over a year ago, although the parts in it are from late 2009 onwards. Looking to upgrade it in the next six months or so - such is the PC hardware development (life)cycle!
 
Well lets see here.... My HTPC's CPU is nearly two years old(Core 2 Duo @2.93GHz), motherboard is at least a year old since old motherboard had BIOS errors(right after I updated it but I still had warranty and replaced it), 64GB SSD one year old, Blu-ray drive is half a year old, 4GB of DDR2 RAM is two years old, case and power supply is nearly a year old, and the CPU Cooler(Sythe Big Shuriken) is nearly a year old. I plan on upgrading it soon as bulldozer is released and I have the money for it.

The laptop I bought 2 years ago is working fine. Just had to do some maintenance on it and replace the hard drive as the one in it was going bad(did a copy of the old hard drive and moved it to the new one which is a few months old).

I built my parent's a cheap computer a year ago and it runs strong like a bull. Built it with a $400 budget and some spare parts(DVD drive from old HP and threw an old GPU I had laying around to play blu-ray with it. The computer still uses an 6 year old 14" 4x3 format HP LCD monitor from the old family computer(my parent's motto, Don't replace it if it still works).
 
I've got one that's in the Purolator truck and another that's 8 years old. Also, some parts are still in NJ at the warehouse being packaged.
 
Brand new Macbook Pro 15 - less than 2 months old

Thinkpad T410, about 9 months old

Desktop (homebrew, Athlon 4800+, Nvidia 460, 4GBddr2) - this is 3 years old and... really needs to be redone. I built it on a budget, and when you push it, that shows.

Old piece of crap 15" Sony laptop, probably 9 years old - Running Fedora 11

Need a new desktop and repurpose the one I have - probably just put a RAID controller in it and a bunch of SATA drives, and make a backup/media server.
 
Sharky.
Two things. Name brands don't send techs out to people's houses to fix their machines in person, instead they get you to send the "broken" machine to an authorised repair outlet - which is virtually an RMA but for a complete computer. it's not like prebuilts come with super special 1337hax restoration software that you can't get for a custom machine :odd:
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HP/Compaq and a few others here normally send out a tech to fix the issue.
Eg you report a video issue, a tech will comeout with a videocard and replace it.

Also OEMs have a key that you press to start a restore, unlike a prebuilt where they will give you a windows disc most of the time.

HP/Compaq: F10 for XP machines, F11 For Vista and 7
Acer: Alt+F10
Sony: F10 or Assit(with unit off)

These restore functions will restore windows to the OOBE and that is it, all the import programs that you need are installed.
 
Mine is the one delivered from my dad's workplace roughly four months ago, the screen is huge and the images are shown more sharply(in higher-resolution) so I'm fully satisfied with that, yet it seems delicate to treat with care. :( ;)
 
Laptop is 3 years, still can't replace it for the same spec without spending more than what I paid back then :(.
 
One of my grad presents 3 years ago was a laptop. Dell Studio 15, 2.1 ghz dual core, ati 4570, and 4gb ram. Does everything I need right now for school and plays most games up to recent stuff which is nice.
 
My desktop is 4 years old (plus some slight upgrades to it)

My laptop is a year old :lol:
 

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