How old is your pc?

@b4balaji (410)
India
November 30, 2009 7:25am CST
Mine is 6 years old. I have changed my monitor now to a new lcd one. Apart from that no major changes. What about you? How old is yours? What have you changed?
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16 responses
@benny128 (3615)
30 Nov 09
I never let my pc or laptop go more than a year old, I replace them every year. I used to upgrade the components but now pc's and laptop's are cheap enough now to buy the savings of upgrading the components are well not really worth it.
• China
30 Nov 09
you must be a very rich guy or a fan of pc or laptop. great, but each time after you change your pc or laptop many things you need to repeat time and time again, such as transefer the disk data, which are important to you, maybe some documents, pictures, installation files of software and so on. that will be a time consuming work which concern not the money but your time and energy. then i want to ask that whether changing a pc or laptop worth or not? lol
@benny128 (3615)
30 Nov 09
nah pc's etc are cheap enough to buy now a days and I don't store much on my pc as have everything backed up on dvd and pen drives. Or once I replace my pc I just network it with my new one and transfer any docs I wanna keep across using a lan.
• China
30 Nov 09
you are lucky cause i have many documents which are all very important to me. as for you, i think you should better use a Netbook cause you just surf the internet. and the Netbook will be much cheaper. good luck~
• China
30 Nov 09
hitherto i have not change my pc. in fact it just has served me for 4-5 years. now, it works good, and i am not gonna to change it at least in the next 3 years. changing my pc means a lot of work to do, after you buy a new pc or laptop you must thansfer many important documents from the old one. that means a great hard work for me cause the copy speed now is not very satisfactory for me.
@b4balaji (410)
• India
30 Nov 09
Next 3 years??? Hmm very good. that means you are a good user.
@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
2 Dec 09
Well my computer had been 11 months old already yea . and i still ok with it yea.
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
2 Dec 09
Mine is 8 years old, with a 17" CRT display from a computer before that was even older. However, I finally have a new computer on order. Should be her before the week is over.
@khayshenz (1384)
• United States
30 Nov 09
MY PC is 8 years old but I have changed the parts every two to three years. And of course upgrade software every year or so. I do think that PC's are cheaper these days but so are parts. And typically, when I upgrade - I buy top of the line and the best at the moment that way I won't have to upgrade in another two or three years. Technology is so fluid and improves so fast - so you never really know how long a motherboard is good for!
@b4balaji (410)
• India
30 Nov 09
Ok you have to get updated with the latest s/w and h/w in the market. That is for sure. But you can still retain the cabinet lol :-)
• United States
18 Jan 10
My pic is 13 years old. I like it though.
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
Mine is about 6 or 7 years. But I've already replaced a lot of it like the motherboard and the processors. The remaining antique on my PC is the casing of my CPU, power supply, the printer, and the webcam. I wished I could buy a graphic card for more gaming experience.
@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
1 Dec 09
I had an old PC which is Sony Vaio, I used it for over 8 years, and yesterday, I officially pronounced its deceased due to the CPU failure. I purchased a refurbished one to replace it. It was cost much less and it runs much faster than the one I have right now.
@yok999 (124)
• Portugal
30 Nov 09
if my memory doesn´t fail me, mine has 2 years and i still haven´t changed nothing on it, in part due to the parts and the pc´s being to expensive around here, perhaps this xmas i´ll get a knew lcd monitor.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
1 Dec 09
hi b4balaji^^;; i still have my old desktop but work on my new laptop most of the time. my desktop is already 8 years old because i bought it 2001. all parts are still the original and i just added a dvd burner but that's all. it is still working fine for basic use like word processing and the like. it's also possible for gaming that requires low specification. my monitor also still works good but sometimes the built-in speaker on it sound is a bit distorted when the volume is adjusted. i still treasure it haha
@free_man (7330)
• United States
30 Nov 09
Hello B4balaji and welcome to my lot. My computers is about the same age as yours. I have changed the mother board in one and the hard drive in both. I would love to have an LCD monitor but that is not in my budget yet. Maybe one day I will buy a new computer but these computers both run pretty good so I will stick to them until I can afford better.
@priscy25 (71)
• Canada
2 Dec 09
Mine is also about six years old, have not changed much about it though. I am looking to get a lab top soon in order to end all my miseries.
@kaylachan (58425)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Dec 09
This is actually like my fourth or fith laptop over my lifetime. They generally last me about four years because of all of the abuse. But meh. This particural one is four months old.
@jkcokley (265)
• United States
1 Dec 09
My PC is a decade old, but still does the job but had to update a hard drive.. Yes, I did change the monitor as lord have mercy that thing was huge!
• India
30 Nov 09
mine is 2 yrs old. but i'm planning to upgrade seein the present development in technology. wht is there today is no there tom!!!
@icecubic (1845)
• Indonesia
30 Nov 09
My pc was 5 years old. I guess i have bought at 2005. My monitor has changed to LCD type since a few month ago and the newest i change my VGA card last month. Maybe i wanna change it again next time as i want my pc going to powerful.