🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people techinasia.com/awk...

Nkrs I don't see anything wrong with using an older computer. Sure, newer software often expects newer hardware and things might go slower than usual, but I don't think that warrants a full computer upgrade every year (and if you ask me, software developers are to blame). I'm personally using a 7 year old desktop; I've changed the motherboard and added more RAM, but that's it. I do have a newer laptop, but it's much nicer to type on a mechanical keyboard and look at a 24" screen. Perhaps it's all rooted in culture - where I am from things are often used and fixed rather than discarded.

Mark Dain I don't either, so long as the computer is usable / not slow. Something can be said about software always demanding more though. OS X has largely stayed the same yet it's hardware requirements have gone from 128 MB RAM (Cheeta) to over 2 GB RAM (Lion). It makes me wonder what takes up all that memory. Both my machines have 16 GB RAM and I'm looking to replace my laptop soley because it has 4, which makes it a bit slow at times. Honestly, I'd also blame phones for driving this; everyone wants the latest phone and they upgrade once or twice a year rather than 4-5 year cycles as they do with computers.