When do you concede its time to get a new computer.

Generally you should expect a computer and most other electronic equipment to be good for five to seven years. Theoretically, if anything is to wrong with an computer or other electronic appliances then it should be in the first year. There are obviously exceptions and this does depend on the design and quality of the parts and the build at the manufacturers. If more than one thing goes wrong with your computer it is time to get a new one. The problem is that if one part fails in a computer it can stress other components and cause the early demise of these components. These days shops offer you an extended warranty but if you notice they will run out after five years and you may not be able to extend the warranty after this period. It is a matter of personal choice but normally the cost of these policies equals the purchase price after five years payment. My own personal belief is that you are better saving the money if you can rather than pay the extended warranty. If anything should go wrong then you should be a fair way to paying the cost of a repair after the second year. After five years then you would have enough money to buy a new one. If the cost is significantly less than the purchase price then you are onto a winner. There is a risk involved that it could fail after the warranty period but that is for you to chose whether you take the risk or not. Another thing that is not commonly known is that for every 10 degrees drop in temperature it doubles an electronics component life expectancy. That is why modern TV's are more reliable than the old Vacumn tube TV's. Therefore keeping things as cool as possible can make a big difference to the life of electronic equipment. The best way to do this is to ensure adequate ventillation of electronic equipment cases. Do not block ventillation slots or holes. That is why there is a fan in the back of your computer and why fans are mounted on the heatsink of the processor and some Graphics Cards.

I start this year with new computer details now my computer os like new. In the year begining my computer mother plate crashed so there was only one chance buy new mother plate, But then I calculate that better would be If I will change all computer details to better details. My first computer details was about give year old. So I think when you feel that your computer is too slow and can't run programs what you want for example in my situation some pc games I changed my computer details to new and now I have new, fast and good computer.

I should have added it does depend on the cost of repairing the computer. Another point I should have added is not to switch a computer off without shuting it down properly first. This is a major reason why hard drives fail. The arm that reads and writes to the sectors isn't in its parked position. If not shut down properly the read/write head could then crash into the surface of the disk causing surface damage to the disk or damage to the read/write head. I believe you may know this already but I have added it for completeness.

For me if my computer is destroyed.

It is really alarming when your computer behaves like that in a matter of 6months. It is either the root of the problem is not being solved or yes you need to buy a new computer. If that is a first hand computer and the processor is still good like its Pentium 4 or the dual core series, I think it is still practical to save it rather than buying a new one.

It took me a long time to purchase this laptop that I'm using now. My old one caught a virus so I had to have that fixed and it started conking on me during very important moments like when I needed to complete an article or a report. When it started doing that so frequently, I knew then it was time.

As long as you are comfortable while working on it and getting supporting hardware in the market, you should use it. Basically my view is that a computer can be used for a tenure of 5-7 years at the most. The technology keeps changing withing a year and new upgrades available every 2-3 months its quiet hard to go too long with 1 machine.

Well it depends to yourself, if you have the power economically and financially capable to buy another computer. Then why not just get a new one. And, if you are tired of buying computer every year or two, you just have to buy a more high quality standard computer hardwares. Specifically like those Apple Macs. It is a wise and smart investment you can have.

I concede .... when all the equipment in my computer have problems and often display the blue screen, I'll change all needed. Before I buy a new computer I had to check whether the computer can be work again. If nothing happen, then perhaps time to buy a more sophisticated computer. Current prices are not as expensive as first computer.

Well all of my computers are still in perfect condition but there parts are not that good to even run some needed applications that i use everyday. When i see that even flash games, or a couple of videos are currently playing and my computer is already lagging then i feel that i need to buy a new one. I started to see the detoriation of my computers capability when last year i can run 30 tabs easily but now it lags a lot with those 30 tabs. And no amount of reformatting and defragmenting makes it run a lot faster.

When sites take too long to load or the computer is taking forever to turn on then i am sure it is time to purchase a new computewr. they just cant llast forever, but we we like to get as much use from them as we can. Computers are just not an inexpensive purchase.

I concede that it's time to get a new computer, when the computer is getting lagging behind, and when it can't run the programs, that I'd like to run. I'm only using laptops (and will never go back to a desktop computer), so it's harder to replace, upgrade etc. hardware on it, but manytimes it's almost the same price, whether you buy some new hardware for your computer, or you buy a brand new one, and that will also give you a new "breath", and you'll get a touch happier! :-)

I would only concede to buying a new computer if he repair is remotely close to the purchase of a new one. Recently my laptop was hit with a really bad malware in which I reformatted my entire pc and found that it was running a bit too slow for me. So I went ahead and searched for a really good deal and purchased a brand new hard drivee 3 times the amount of space my old one had, it cost me $25 to do so and so now my Laptop is like new. So if a pc/laptop is worth upgrading and the repair is amply less then the purchase of a new one I will not buy a new one.