I'd been holding off buying a new laptop (mine was from 2019 & hinge just broke), and health reasons mean less income. But bought a new one last month because of *gestures around*
I feel your pain. My house had to get new HVAC and plumbing in January. Both at once just took every dime, and now taxes. I hate Q1 every year but this is the worst.
How do you figure? We have to replace Windows based machines every 3 years, the Mac’s our company use is from 2013 and people keep requesting them because they are better than the HP Elite book. My 4 year old Apple silicon machine will runs laps around any of the client laptops I was issued.
Planned obsolescence is one of the cruelest features of a capitalist economy. Capitalism needs to be extremely heavily regulated, because what we're seeing what happens when it's not: people can buy the most powerful country in the world
Oh man, I will love to have this on an old iPad Pro 10.5 inches that I can see has lots more power than I can actually use with now-already “old” iOS 17.Something.
I just had to replace my 7yo iPhone and it somehow feels like an accomplishment I made it last that long. In the end it was the battery and lack of storage.
My car is 2 years old, I have an RTX 4070 video card and I just upgraded the AV receiver. Hoping i can ride this out. May come to rue not replacing the fridge...
Exactly that. I broke down and got a PC laptop so I can properly run Teams, as I sometimes teach using that platform and my old Mac couldn’t upgrade from classic Teams. I’m still clinging to my Mac for almost everything else though.
I replaced my Macbook Pro with a Macbook Air. I don't care how good Apple hardware is, $2499 is too much for a base model. On top of that, I use Linux on my desktops, which is good for that.
Yeah but the new Airs are really nice, not the joke they used to be. No real reason to buy a Pro unless you're doing video or audio production imo. The storage and RAM pricing is idiotic though.
My laptop and my desktop turned 10 last year, and my phone was no longer able to do some things that I was going to need it to do, so last year was my "year to replace all the things." New phone, then new laptop and I finished out the year with a new desktop. WHEW. Saw this coming. Glad I did it.
Yuuuup. Replaced a lemon of a laptop last day of 23 (to be on that years taxes) and phone in November after the election. No way I was gonna chance tariffs on new tech.
Humans craft marvelous technology out of copper, glass, gold and silicone and build it precisely down to the nanometer to repeatedly perform our bidding trillions of times with great accuracy.
But after only 1,826 rotations of Earth, these marvels should be unplugged and buried in a landfill.
You should give Linux a try. I just installed the Kubuntu distribution on an old Lenovo T530 I had, which had been rendered useless because it was only capable of running Windows 7, and now it's working beautifully. I am even able to run on it most of the tasks I do on my devices on Windows 10/11.
I did this on an old laptop. Ran it off the cd drive initially because the hard drive was going bad. It worked for longer then I'd care to admit before I switched out the drive.
Yep, best advice I've heard is to install Linux on the 'old' computer that you'd otherwise be chucking out. Spouse had a laptop that was really struggling and got a new one, so I put Mint on the old one as an experiment. That was like 2 years ago. It still runs well. I'm a Linux convert now!
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Of fuck my computer is 11 years old wtf
It would suck to use software that limits your freedoms.
My samsung note 9 has not slowed down, and Ive had it for 5-6 years
Meanwhile, Apple has been caught putting obsolescence measures in its updates. The iPhones are the worst offenders.
Pixel 7 is great by the way.
But after only 1,826 rotations of Earth, these marvels should be unplugged and buried in a landfill.